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Monday, June 3, 2013

Herbicides and Stormwater Ponds, Urban Greening or Urban Poison?

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With a number of comments, emails and questions submitted about stormwater ponds and toxins, I thought a few clarifying comments would be ap...
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Friday, May 31, 2013

Healthy Cities Need Healthy Stormwater Ponds - Urban Green, Habitat and Herbicides

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Feels like I am stuck in the movie, Groundhog Day starring Bill Murry.  You know, the one where he wakes up in the same room to the same son...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Descending Aortic Dissection, Sonogram and video view of a Marfan Syndrome Leg Aorta

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Made it through my periodic sonogram check of the dissected descending aorta in my right leg yesterday at the cardiologist office in St. Au...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Warfarin Lifestyle, Aortic Dissection and a St. Jude Device, #Marfan Syndrome

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It happened again.  Out of nowhere comes a slow steady dripping, bright red blotches Jackson Pollock style across the open book page, table ...
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Aortic Dissection and Aneurysm Symptoms, Living with Marfan Syndrome

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It happens just too often.  Someone arrives in the hospital emergency room with unusual pain. Med ID tags can save your life The inexperienc...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Heart Healthy Urban Green Walls

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I had my regular CT scan conducted by Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Florida last week.  The hospital was established along the tidal ...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Aortic Dissection and Short Term Memory Loss - Mind Mapping Therapy!

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What was I going to write about? Aortic Dissection & Short Term Memory Loss, Mind MappingTherapy Yes, short term memory problems haunt m...
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Urban Green for Cardiovascular Health

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Unfortunately I am having a very difficult time writing anymore, as you can see from the frequency of my posts. Florida Urban Perma...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Connective Tissue Disorders, How Aortic Dissection Happens #Marfan Syndrome

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What is a connective tissue disorder and how does it affect persons? Connective tissue is made up of structural proteins, themselves long c...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Meadow Line - What A Great Urban Greening Project!

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Check out this awesome idea about the blending/integration of wildflowers into transportation corridors!  I can see it here in Jacksonvil...

Is My Aorta Still Dilating? #Marfan #Aorta Dissection

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How many times during the day do I ask myself this very question? Flagler Hospital's GE Lightspeed CT Scan Unit Everytime I reach to ho...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Marfan Life, Another Iodine CT Scan Today, Flagler Hospital, St Augustine

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Flagler Hospital hospital is just twenty minutes north up US 1.  Today I'll be having another Cardiac and Abdominal CT Scan. So I wrote ...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Cardiovascular Health from Food? Beat Aortic Dissection with Delicious Watermelon

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I love to eat good food.  And when you can eat all you want (well almost) and get healthier at the same time, you have found reason to celeb...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

Marfan Syndome, Aortic Aneurysm and Every Parent's Worst Nightmare

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Every so often Ruairi, our soon to be 16 year old teen son will walk up to me and say, 'Dad, my chest hurts'. #Marfan Syndrome, Our ...
Saturday, May 11, 2013

Marfan Syndrome? Aortic Dissection? Say What?

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The below photo was taken six months before my aortic dissection.  I'm standing on a wonderful Green Roof at Breaking Ground Contracting...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Marfan Syndrome Issues - Descending Dissection Issues

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One of the reasons I started blogging about Aortic Dissections and Marfan Sydrome was to share what I've learned and experienced.  Today...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Aorta Dissectes Unexpectedly, My Near Death Experience

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Unexpectedly on November 29, 2011 my aorta dissected all the way from the valve in my heart up over the arch, down through my abdomen into m...