I walk because I know that with every step, I am saving lives.
As you may know, I work in the echo lab at UMass Memorial Medical Center doing cardiac ultrasound. I started my career in this because my dad was born with a congenital heart defect (bicuspid aortic valve), and had complications when he was 26. Years later, my brother Jeff, was also born with a heart defect (ASD, with pulmonary anomalous return), which he needed open heart surgery for when he was just 4 years old. When I had my son, Theo, pictured above, we learned that he also had a congenital heart defect (VSD), which fortuantly, at this time, we believe he will not need to have corrected!
We're all tied to heart disease and stroke in some way. We have to change that. Will you help me?
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Have a heart and help me reach my goal today.
