Heart disease was once known as a disease of men—and older men at that. Today we speak with previously healthy women who had sudden, unexpected heart trouble at relatively young ages. Their diseases were so severe that they required heart transplants. You will be surprised and inspired by our conversations with artist Ann Gable Allaire and her husband Bill, and Deborah Daw Heffernan author of “An Arrow through the Heart.”
Guests
Anne and William Allaire
Anne Gable Allaire is a Maine artist who in 1997 was diagnosed with a medical condition necessitating radical procedures. She underwent a heart transplant and a stem cell transplant within less than a year of each other. Her husband, Bill Allaire, recently penned a book about that experience Miracles Do Happen: A Story of Medical and Spiritual Survival.
Deborah Heffernan
Deborah Heffernan is the author of An Arrow through the Heart, a personal story about how she survived a near-fatal heart attack.