It is a small world after all...

[Lisa Salberg]

So to yet again show you how strange the world can be and how HCM seems to follow me anywhere...
I was thinking about the cardiologist who diagnosed me in 1979. He retired in 2001 after having a bi-pass in 1994, so he too knows what it is to be a patient. I gave him a call and left a message with his wife he called back about 3 hours later. Now here is where things get strange...
Dr. G called and said "I was just talking to someone about you, it is funny that you called" So of course I asked to whom...now this is where my worlds collide "I was talking to Martin Maron because a family member of mine was diagnosed with LVH and we wanted to see if it was HCM, and it was" I was thinking this was some kind of joke - but no it was real and yet again shows us how common HCM actually is!

I was then honored when Dr. G said he came here to the website to learn more about HCM including who else in the family should be screened.

Life is stranger then fiction - come on guys you have to admit this is strange!

Lisa

[SharonBates]

We just never know who we will touch along the way!

Thank you for continuing to educate and share with all the great people in your life.

Hope all is going well for you in the world of HCMA!

Sharon

[Burton Borrok]

Lisa,
Just to show you again how important you and your work is, let me tell you a story.
My son just had a surprise quad by-pass. The hospital he was trucked to is new in this game, Steven being the seventeenth patient to undergo this surgery.

His surgeon, who happens to be just a few months younger then Steve, is one of two who have set-up and are running this unit – which now is very busy. He did a spectacular job, and Steve expects to be left with only the very thinnest of scars on his chest. This man is so concerned with the work he does and it’s aftermath, that when he invaded Steve’s leg for grafts he only used peek-a-boo incisions to minimize the problems and following scaring as much as possible. The man is an artist with a knife.

And yet – He still uses IHSS instead of HCM. Although the x-ray tech came out during the operation to give us a status and said that Steven’s heart was bigger then normal, this surgeon insisted that he does not have HCM. All the signs are there – his heart is just not big enough to qualify for the appellation as yet – (in his mind.)

Two in a thousand is a lot of people when you are dealing in multi-millions. You still have a very lot to do, but think of how much you have done already and how many people you have helped. I’m an arthritic old man, but I stand in awe of your accomplishments. You are a tzadic – A righteous person on whom the world depends.
I will love you forever,
Burt

[Eileen2345]

That's wild!!


It is so great that you have this website for everyone to benefit from. We all are truly blessed by your work Lisa.



With appreciation,

Eve

[Pam Alexson]

Wow , Lisa!!

That is totally psychic stuff and totally gives me chills.( Good Chills) Now you really know you were sent to this earth for many special reasons and you pull the threads of this tapestry of life even closer.

One more validation to how small this world really is and how brightly you my dear shine in it.

Happy to be a part of your world, thank you.

Pam

[eatwell]

I have to agree. This is your mission and we all receive the blessings. Thanks is hardly sufficient.

Laura