I had read of course that heart disease is the number one killer of women, but did you know that 1 in 3 women will have heart disease. Heart disease kills more women than the next three diseases put together, far more than cancer. That is shocking!

This short video on the Go Red website gives a humorous, but all to realistic vision of what can happen to a seemingly healthy young woman…

From the Heart Association website:

Signs of a Heart Attack:

1. Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest. It lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back.
2. Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach.
3. Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort.
4. Other signs such as breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness.
5. As with men, women’s most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or discomfort. But women are somewhat more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting and back or jaw pain.

If you have any of these signs, don’t wait more than five minutes before calling for help. Call 9-1-1…Get to a hospital right away.

I also found out that the American Heart Association has teamed up with Join Forces to offer guidance and support to military wives and female veterans … Read more about this program

Even worse, are their abominable parents who are embarrassed. I am ashamed of those parents who have been given this precious gift and yet cannot appreciate it. How can you sequester your child or not take pictures because he or she looks different. Or even Photo Shop those pictures so as to hide that which makes you uncomfortable.

Society uses the label, “deformed,” I call them special. Who can look at this and tell me he is not beautiful?

I have taken more than a hundred photos in the last four months of my precious little grandson. And I am proud and eager to show them to anyone who will look. I share so many on Facebook that I have probably become an annoyance to my friends. And you know what, I don’t care.

I think they are all beautiful in their own special way. And I say thank you to all of the kind and wonderful people who have taken the time to stop and tell us how cute he is. I try to pass that favor along. So, I ask the kind and open-hearted among you to take the time to tell the parent of a “different” child how beautiful they are. It might be the only time they hear it and it can mean so much.

Please share or pass this along to friends and loved ones and ask them to do the same. We need to do our part to mitigate the cruelty and ignorance that exists in this messed up world in which we live.

A discussion was recently posted to one of my LinkedIn groups asking us to describe our lives in six words. Inspired by the Six-Word Memoir Project, it created a very fascinating discussion. If you could only use six words to tell your memoir and communicate your life to someone, what would they be?

My response… Work hard! Play often! Love much!

How about you? Can you sum up your life in six words?