My Relationship With My Doctor
I was 63 in 2017, when I first met my current cardiologist, and I’d come prepared. After spelling out my family history — father and brother dead at 50 and 27 ...
Casey Mulligan Walsh was diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) at 21 and has spent more than 4 decades learning about and managing this genetic disorder and encouraging affected family members to do the same. An advocate for awareness for The FH Foundation, she is devoted to promoting appropriate diagnosis and treatment of this common yet tremendously underdiagnosed disorder in her region and beyond. A retired speech-language pathologist, she writes about FH, grief and joy, and navigating life’s uncertainties and is currently querying a memoir. Find Casey at www.caseymulliganwalsh.com or connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
I was 63 in 2017, when I first met my current cardiologist, and I’d come prepared. After spelling out my family history — father and brother dead at 50 and 27 ...
I always assumed I’d die young. This may sound shocking to most people, who hope and even expect to live well into their 80s, 90s, and beyond. For those ...
The year was 1976, and I was 21. My 50-year-old father had died 10 years earlier, after suffering a massive coronary. My only sibling had died in 1975 ...
There are as many ways to parent as there are people. But, with rare exception, the one thing we all have in common is the intense desire to ...
You’ve been diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), the genetic form of severely high cholesterol, which can lead to early heart events or death ...
Some of the best advice I’ve ever heard boils down to this simple idea: Naming something doesn’t give it power, it gives us power ...