Blog Category: Quality of Life

Awareness, Family Planning, Quality of Life February 12, 2021February 24, 2021

How It’s Going

In 2010, Maya Brown-Zimmerman and her husband, Mark, co-wrote a blog post, Marfan Through a...

Advocacy, Awareness, Education, Quality of Life February 9, 2021February 24, 2021

A Costco Shopper Saved my Life

“If she’s your Mom, you need to get tested,” a woman said to me. She had noticed me – a...

Advocacy, Awareness, Quality of Life February 2, 2021February 24, 2021

Healthy Life Comes From Awareness

I was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome around the age of 12 years old, while growing up in Meridian,...

Quality of Life January 7, 2021July 22, 2021

Choices

The moment in which a child is born is the most miraculous moment of opportunity. In the moment in...

Community, Healthcare Management, Quality of Life, Surgery December 1, 2020September 14, 2023

Top Five Things I Wish I Knew Before My Aortic Surgery

When I had my open-heart surgery to repair my aorta back in the summer of 2014, I did not have...

Quality of Life, Surgery October 22, 2020July 30, 2021

Mental and Physical Recovery from Surgery

This is me y’all. In all my glory. I’m scarred from the belly up. I have been conquering this...

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