Comments on: Dear Oprah: An Open Thank You Note from Mellanie True Hills of StopAfib.org http://atrialfibrillationblog.com/dear-oprah-an-open-thank-you-note-from-mellanie-true-hills-of-stopafiborg/ From StopAfib.org - For Afib Patients, By Afib Patients Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:59:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mellanie http://atrialfibrillationblog.com/dear-oprah-an-open-thank-you-note-from-mellanie-true-hills-of-stopafiborg/comment-page-1/#comment-751 Mellanie Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:50:10 +0000 http://atrialfibrillationblog.com/dear-oprah-an-open-thank-you-note-from-mellanie-true-hills-of-stopafiborg/#comment-751 Mark, Thanks for sharing this. My heart goes out to you and your family. It's such a tragic loss. To me, it seems that the doctors at home were at fault for letting it progress so far without doing anything substantive for your Dad. By the time he reached Bordeaux, his afib may have progressed to the point that it was very difficult to deal with. We now know that "while doctors are fiddling, Rome is burning" and that more proactive treatment may be a better course. The longer it goes on, the harder it is to fix. I hope that your family's tragic loss will save someone else from something similar. Thanks so much for your mother's spirit and generosity in sharing this story. Mellanie Mark,

Thanks for sharing this. My heart goes out to you and your family. It’s such a tragic loss.

To me, it seems that the doctors at home were at fault for letting it progress so far without doing anything substantive for your Dad. By the time he reached Bordeaux, his afib may have progressed to the point that it was very difficult to deal with. We now know that “while doctors are fiddling, Rome is burning” and that more proactive treatment may be a better course. The longer it goes on, the harder it is to fix.

I hope that your family’s tragic loss will save someone else from something similar. Thanks so much for your mother’s spirit and generosity in sharing this story.

Mellanie

]]> By: Mark http://atrialfibrillationblog.com/dear-oprah-an-open-thank-you-note-from-mellanie-true-hills-of-stopafiborg/comment-page-1/#comment-600 Mark Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:52:35 +0000 http://atrialfibrillationblog.com/dear-oprah-an-open-thank-you-note-from-mellanie-true-hills-of-stopafiborg/#comment-600 We lost my father to AFIB last year in a french hospital in Bordeaux. My mother has now started a blog which is detailing our experience there. Just wanted to link to it in case your readers are interested in our experience with getting treated (and what went wrong) in Bordeaux. If you do read the blog, please post some comments as my mom could use some encouragement. http://thebutterflywidow.blogspot.com/ We lost my father to AFIB last year in a french hospital in Bordeaux. My mother has now started a blog which is detailing our experience there.

Just wanted to link to it in case your readers are interested in our experience with getting treated (and what went wrong) in Bordeaux.

If you do read the blog, please post some comments as my mom could use some encouragement.

http://thebutterflywidow.blogspot.com/

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