Heart to Heart with Anna Anna Jaworski

This is a follow-up episode to one we did last year so that we can learn more about how Lorrie Hill's transplant journey is progressing.

Deborah Meisten is the Heart Mother of a teenaged son born with tetralogy of Fallot and she shares her experiences and advice with Anna in this episode of "Heart to Heart with Anna."

Adrienne Kovacs, Ph.D. shares information with Anna about the psychology of living with a chronic illness such as congenital heart disease and how PTSD, anxiety, and depression may affect a Heart Warrior's quality of life.

Keith Flynn returns to share the progress he's made in the last year as this single-ventricle Fontan Survivor awaits a heart and liver transplant.

Dr. Ali Zaidi is a cardiologist specializing in the care of adults with congenital heart defects and in this episode he shares with Anna what the new guidelines are for those needing a heart transplant, some of the complexities surrounding the transplant journey, and the history of cardiac transplantation in humans.

Belen Blanton was born in Venezuela in 1965 with a severe congenital heart defect and she shares with Anna what her heart journey has been like and why she is now helping children in Venezuela born with heart defects.