From Heart to Heart
After surviving Acute Heart Failure at 33 years old I felt very alone in my recovery. I had never met anyone with heart failure let alone someone near my age. After beginning to share my story publicly and on social media I began meeting many other people who had also survived Acute Heart Failure. Some of these people had experienced it years before me, some had received a heart transplant and others were loved ones with family members currently hospitalized due to it. Connecting with these patients and family members was carthartic and opened my eyes to a whole new community of people I now had much in common with. I wanted to create this podcast so that other people who experienced heart failure could find this community of beautiful people and find the same hope and comfort that I did from hearing their stories. I hope that this podcast not only opens your eyes to a whole new community of brave, inspiring individuals, but that you also learn more about heart failure and all the ways in which it can affect people. Thank you for being here!
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If you'd like to follow along on my heart failure advocacy and recovery journey you can find me on Instagram @hillarysheart. For any questions, comments or inquiries you can contact me via email at hillary@hillarysheart.com.
From Heart to Heart
Cheyenne Tallmon - Peripartum Cardiomyopathy & Heart Transplant
Welcome back to the podcast. In this episode I interviewed my friend, Cheyenne. I first heard about Cheyenne through a friend whose sister was being treated for acute viral myocarditis at Providence St.Vincent’s just like I had been. My friend told me there was this girl who was also at St.Vincent’s due to heart failure but she had also just given birth. I remember praying for Cheyenne as I heard bits and pieces about her story but hadn’t met her. In April of last year I received a message from her on Instagram and from that point I got to follow along while she waited for a new heart. I will never forget the day, May 4th 2023 when she sent me a DM that said, “We got a heart! Surgery tomorrow!” I immediately began crying tears of happiness for this girl I’d never even met before. Cheyenne’s story is devastating in so many ways, but her positivity shines so brightly as she shares it all. She has come out on the other side of this with a super human kind of strength that I can’t even put into words. So, you’ll just have to listen and hear for yourself. Here’s our conversation.
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