One Story...
Despite discovering moderate blockage in her heart after a routine test, Melodee went back to her normal lifestyle of long work hours and regular gym visits. Her body kept telling her something was wrong, though. Sometime later, she woke up feeling extremely tired and anxious. A trip to the hospital and an angiogram test later found a 99 percent blockage in one of her arteries which required angioplasty.
Like the vast majority of American women, Melodee was uninformed of her risk of heart disease and unable to recognize the warning signs. Melodee never ignores her body’s warning signals now. And she is committed to encouraging women to become advocates for their own health.
Melodee Church, heart disease survivor
HEART SISTERS
Connecting sisters, mothers, daughters, friends, women.....one beat at a time.....
You've had all the procedures and medications necessary to begin healing physically after your heart incident, but how do you recover emotionally? It is normal to have conflicting emotions and feelings of anger, fear, depression and anxiety...Anger that this has happened to you or at the way friends and family are reacting; Fear of dying or that life will never be the same; Depression and anxiety because you feel a loss of control over your own life or worry about how your family is coping. There are positive, healthy ways to deal with these feelings. One of the best ways is to express them. Among the best people to express them to are other women who can relate to your experiences and share coping tools they have found to be successful.
Heart Sisters offer support, comfort and hope and even find the humor in dealing with heart disease. No charges or insurance claims to file. Just a relaxed atmosphere to exchange thoughts, feelings and information as only women can.
We welcome any women who feel the need to share heart-health related concerns.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE Join us the first Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m.
MISSION STATEMENT
Women with heart disease providing a relaxed, confidential outlet for exchanging information and sharing thoughts and feelings with other women copying with heart-health related issues.
OBJECTIVE
Heart Sisters will work diligently to provide education and support as well as promote awareness of symptoms and risk factors, advocating early detection, accurate diagnosis and proper treatment of heart disease in women.