I “Heart” Heart Library!

Heart disease runs in my family. My paternal grandmother died from a heart attack at 65 when I was 12. Years earlier my grandfather died, most likely of a heart attack. I was six when he died, but I still remember the pain of learning of my grandparents’ death. I have a memory of the place when I found out, like a photographer etched in the album of my mind.

A couple of years ago my dad had a heart attack, he survived. My sister had a heart attack at 36 years old. She survived. One thing they all had in common that I don’t have is they smoked! But it’s not hard to see how I could get excited about a website like heartlibrary.com.

When I first heard about this site that utilizes video, animation and real doctors to explain complicated heart terminology diseases, I thought it was a great way to communicate information. Even a nonreader could find the videos easy to use and understandable. But after I watched some of the videos and browsed the categories, I thought it would be an awesome homeschool tool. Check out this sample on irregular heartbeat.

I can see my 11 yr old being the most excited about this site. Even though I don’t homeschool him anymore, he loves to learn and will probably spend hours browsing the heart videos.

Then when I sat down to write this post I thought about my novel which is currently in front of editors and how I could have used this website when researching my character’s heart problems. I could have saved myself a lot of time pouring through websites for information if I’d come to heartlibrary.com first.

I forwarded the link to my sister and dad. Who do you know who could use this informative site?