Heart patients and caregivers:
Read this book and enjoy the

BOOK'S BIGGEST BENEFITS:

• Its focus is on managing home recovery
• Five steps for maximizing home team support
  
• Twelve tips to relieve intermittent depression
  
• Prepare, become empowered,
  reduce stress, before and after
  the surgery date

Whether you are facing open-heart surgery recovery, heart bypass surgery recovery, or heart valve surgery recovery,
you will benefit from this book.

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"This passionate and personal guide will help you both survive and thrive after open-heart surgery."

— Mehmet C. Oz, MD
Vice Chairman, Cardiovascular Services, Department of Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

"The Open Heart Companion is a superb accomplishment and a very practical guide for patients requiring heart surgery.  It is extremely well organized and very informative."

— Joseph A. Dearani, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Find answers to these questions:

1. Patient perspective: What are the most important challenges I may face once home?

2. Primary caregiver: What are the most important challenges I may face when I bring my loved one home?

3. Both patient and caregiver: How can we best arrange for family and friends to support us during the home recovery period?

4. We've heard that open-heart patients often encounter depression.  What can be done about that?

5. How important is a second opinion?

6. What are the benefits of a cardiac rehabilitation program?

FACT: Every year in the US alone, more than 700,000 open-heart patients (current AHA figures) plod through an arduous convalescence.

FACT: Very seldom are heart patients told what to really expect during the stressful open-heart surgery recovery period of 8-12 weeks.

FACT: Far too many open-heart patients and primary caregivers don't proactively plan ahead for this very challenging time.

  Maggie Lichtenberg
  Open Heart Coach & 
  Publishing Consultant

I'm Maggie Lichtenberg, a recent open-heart patient and Open Heart Coach.  I decided these FACTS had to change.

After dozens of interviews with heart patients, their caregivers, and medical professionals, plus weaving in my own personal story, I wrote and published The Open Heart Companion to reinforce the wisdom that knowledge is power, and that knowing what to expect during open-heart surgery recovery, heart valve surgery recovery, and heart bypass surgery recovery, makes the process so much easier.