Walk, Heart

 

Sue and I, a few of my coworkers, and several thousand other people walked in the Twin Cities 12th Annual Heart Walk this morning at Target Field.  That’s Darcy doing an inspirational dance with Cami on the right—two of my long-time cohorts.

Here’s Bill who had an LVAD and later a heart transplant.  He was going to walk with us but we kind of got split up among the thousands of people in the concourse.  He’s wearing a red pin on his shirt that has his heart transplant number.  I think he’s number 680 or so that have been transplanted at my hospital since the 1970s.  He got his in around 2009.  Bill gave me a Second Chance For Life T-shirt with the following sentence printed on the back: “Of course I’m an organ donor—who wouldn’t want a piece of this?”

Here’s most of the CVICU team including my boss, her husband and their two small children.  The little boy is Cami’s son Finn.  Marilyn, to my left was one of my preceptors when I joined the ICU staff.

These are two of our nursing assistants who both graduated with nursing degrees from the U  last week.  Jasmin, the shorter of the two volunteered to have Johanna tag a long with her to a college class at the U but it ended up falling through.

We walked the three mile route through downtown and around the lake in Loring Park.  Now Sue has another Heartwalk T-shirt to exercise in possibly replacing her 2011 Heartwalk T-shirt.

Here’s Molly, Sue, and Darcy

Afterwards, several of us had lunch at Kieran's Irish Pub across from The Target Center.  We had to sit at two different tables but close enough where the kids could still collectively get into trouble.

It was a fun day and tonight we’ll go to Sue’s work friend Adam’s 40th Birthday Party.  We may get a glimpse of “Three Beer Adam”.  That should be entertaining.