Wear Red
Ok, so I'm a little slow on the uptake here, but I just bumped into tons of information on Woman's Day Magazine about heart disease for women, and about raising awareness for it. I know Lynn has always said how little information there is for younger women on dealing with heart disease, so I hope this will help anyone that needs it, and raise awareness in the rest of us.
http://www.womansday.com/article.asp?article_id=7587§ion_id=4
hope the link works, but if not just go to the Woman's Day homepage - it's currently linked from there because of a Wear Red day recently - first Friday in February apparently, and they're also linking it cleverly with Valentine's Day which could help to raise awareness too.
Kerri.
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Women & heart disease
maybe the topic title was too far off to have anybody come and take a look over here, so I thought I'd try giving a heads up if the comment stays around long enough. I can't believe nobody's interested in this. If you're not you jolly well should be!
Kerri.
Word's getting around though,
I just got this email from my father's cousin:
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We need to be aware that women's heart attack symptoms can differ greatly from those of men.
In the movies, a man clutches his chest and falls to the floor, doubled over in pain.
Women's symptoms tend to be less dramatic, and can include one or more of the following:
*Nausea
*Indigestion-like pains
*Shortness of breath
*Dizziness
*Pain in the neck that radiates to the arm or back
*Excessive fatigue
*A general sense of disorientation
*Sweating
These symptoms may subside or disappear completely--only to return with a vengeance a few hours later.
As many women die each year from heart attacks as do men. If in doubt, dial 911. Your life could depend on it.
From: Memorial Care Newsletter, February 2005
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Thanks for the link. I like the red dress pin, myself, my coloring makes wearing red problematical. Orangey-red hair and fair skin...red isn't a real option. But the pin is. I just wish my printer had ink in it right now to print off the pattern....
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"If you want yor children to be bright, read them fairytales-- if you want them to be brilliant, read them even more fairytales" Albert Einstein
You're kidding!?!?!
your colouring sounds just like mine and I LOVE wearing red... I also happen to look fabulous in it!
It took me years to realise that I could look good in purple too and even a strong copper (but not pale yellow!). In fact as long as it's a good strong colour I'll wear anything! 
Well maybe not quite... 
vastly off topic, but I couldn't let it slide!
I think, looking at all the signs you've listed, it's no wonder women don't realise they've had a heart attack, because they are so similar to a hundred other things, harmless and otherwise. I've even had chest pains before, but never believed it might be a heart attack. I still don't think it was, but it explains how come women very often die from their first heart attack, because they don't get the obvious wake-up call that men get.
Makes me realise how lucky we are to still have Lynn with us and safely attended by a physician!
Kerri.
Nope, can't pull off the red...
My coloring won't allow it. My color seasons are "autumn" and I can get away with some "spring". The only reds I can get away with are the orangey ones, and the only pinks I can do are the coral-ly ones...
I've had chest pains before that sent me to the ER (twice) but it turned out to be stress induced muscle spasms. My father's cousin who sent that to me also remarked that she had nausea, indigestion & neck pains when she was married to her ex, but the cause wasn't heart disease...
Anyway, yes, we are lucky that Lynn is still with us...
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"If you want yor children to be bright, read them fairytales-- if you want them to be brilliant, read them even more fairytales" Albert Einstein
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