Heart Rending - Heart Mending: Saved by Modern Surgery - Healed by Ancient Wisdom - Softcover

Streznewski M.Ed, Marylou Kelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692572775 ISBN 13: 9780692572771

Publisher: J.G. Whitthorne Press, 2016

Synopsis

On the December midnight when she discovered that she could not breathe, Marylou Kelly Streznewski finally had a good reason to head to the emergency room, after eighteen months of five doctors trying to figure out what was wrong with her. Seven hours of open heart surgery later, she was in possession of a replaced mitral valve, a repaired tricuspid valve and a triple bypass. But even that did not make her an advocate for educating women about heart disease. It was reading a newsletter three months later that listed the very symptoms that had puzzled doctors for those eighteen months. Had she known, she could have insisted that they test her heart! Highlighting the necessity if educating the women of America about the dangers of heart disease as their number one killer, this dramatic memoir takes the reader inside the trauma of open heart surgery using the actual surgeon's notes, prose, letters and her own poetry. Streznewski shows how her use of integrative medicine modalities taught her that she had to heal herself after the surgeons rebuilt her heart. This is not a book of medical advice; the author is not a medical expert. It is the cautionary tale of a survivor who did her homework and took responsibility for her own healing. It is time for such a patient to speak. Someone needs to tell the story of what it takes to get your life back after the massive assault on your entire being which open heart surgery entails. Marylou Kelly Streznewski is that patient.

About this title

About the Author

Marylou Kelly Streznewski's career has included theater, journalism, and the teaching of writing on high school, college, community and senior level. She served as poetry curator of the Bucks County Writer's Room, has taught workshops at the Pearl Buck House, and at various venues in the Bucks County (PA) area. She teaches a workshop at the International Women's Writing Guild's summer conference. An eclectic writer, her published work includes three poetry books: Rag Time and Woman Words,(J.G. Whitthorne Press) which are housed in the chapbook collection of Poet's House, and Dying with Robert Mitchum (Aldrich Press). Fiction and poetry have appeared in national publications. Non-fiction includes Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessing of Extraordinary Potential (John Wiley&Sons) which appears worldwide. In preparation is her first novel, Watching Anna.

Edition details

• Publisher: J.G. Whitthorne Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692572775
• ISBN 13: 9780692572771
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200