Living with a Pacemaker or ICD webinar hosted by DCM Foundation with guest speaker, Doug Rachac
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Affairs of the Heart: Living Well with Cardiomyopathy
Affairs of the Heart: DCMFoundation and Stanford Health
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Rob Buys’ Winding Road to Health
Written by Shawn Lake When Rob Buys was 35, he had an echocardiogram to diagnose some heart palpitations he was having. When he heard the results, he spun them in his favor. “The doctor told me I had a 50 percent chance of having a cardiomyopathy,” Rob says. “What I heard was, ‘There’s a 50
Melissa Justice Values Every Birthday
Written by Shawn Lake For Melissa Justice, all the signs of heart failure were there. The problem was that no one recognized them. When she was finally diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), at age 31, her heart’s ejection fraction — the heart muscle’s pumping function — was severely reduced at less than 15 percent. A
Jane Leeuw’s Family Takes DCM in Stride
Written by Shawn Lake “We’re all healthy,” says Jane Dittoe Leeuw. “In my family, we don’t consider ourselves to be sick.” That’s a very positive statement, given that Leeuw and her siblings, the Dittoes, all have dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). One of her three brothers has a transplanted heart and another has continuing problems with arrhythmias.
Transforming the Lives of People and Families Fighting Heart Disease – with Tenaya Therapeutics
The DCM Foundation and Tenaya Therapeutics explore the future of therapies to treat cardiomyopathy.
Hope for DCM Therapies – with Tenaya Therapeutics
The future of potential DCM therapies is explored.
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Balancing a Busy Schedule, Including a Full-Time Career, While Living with DCM
We continue to use our blog as a space to feature personal stories of individuals and their families who are impacted by dilated cardiomyopathy. This blog post was written by Steve Fietek, an individual who has been living with DCM for many years. Steve shares how he continues to search for balance between this chronic
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Coping with a Chronic Illness: DCM and the Importance of Emotional and Mental Health
My name is Maureen Daniels and I am/was a dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patient for over 30 years. I developed cardiomyopathy at age 37, in 1985, and at that time, there was little specific drug treatment. I lived with the disease for 30 years, and was very blessed, as I was declining, to get a heart
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Tips I Have Learned on Paying for ENTRESTO®
In addition to featuring personal stories of individuals and their families who are impacted by dilated cardiomyopathy on this blog, we will also share helpful tips or suggestions related to DCM. This blog post was written by Greg Hershberger, a DCM patient and the Treasurer of the DCM Foundation Board of Directors. Greg shares what