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Welcome to Fun Fact Friday -- a special weekly podcast during Heart Month (February 2022). Each Friday we have been sharing fun facts for the congenital heart defect community. Our Guest is Frank Jaworski, CRNA -- he is a father to a 27-year-old single ventricle Heart Warrior and he's also Host Anna Jaworski's husband.

In this final episode of our mini-series, Frank will answer the question, "Why do some people with bicuspid aortic valves need surgery and some don't?

Special thanks to Scott Holmes Music for the song we're using during our Fun Fact Friday episode -- "Summer Fun" which you can find here: https://scottholmesmusic.com/

Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay  -- thanks!

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Navin P. Kumar is an extraordinary person who has met medical challenges head-on with a positive attitude and a smile. As a child of the 1970s born with a rare, severe congenital heart defect, Navin has endured multiple open-heart surgeries. He was operated on by cardiac surgeon legend Denton Cooley and feels he owes a debt of gratitude to many for his survival.

In this episode of "Heart to Heart with Anna," Navin shares with Anna what kind of surgeries he has undergone, what challenges he has faced, and how he believes that he has a purpose in life that has transcended any medical obstacles that he may have encountered -- including early-onset Parkinson's disease. He shares his philosophy of life, and in the final segment, he tells Anna about some new and upcoming projects he is excited to be working on.


To read more about Navin P. Kumar here is his IMDB page

Table tennis articles:

https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/Features/2014/September/16/Navin-Kumar-Feature

http://www.mhtabletennis.com/2015/01/the-bionic-man-ping-pongs-ultimate.html

Parkinson Article:

http://www.parkingsuns.com/2017/03/19/navin-kumar-parkie-ping-pong-powerhouse/

General Articles:

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201910/30/WS5db86fb5a310cf3e355744d7.html

https://dbknews.com/0999/12/31/arc-wnpcjswzuzdp3egmwowzv2d7ci/


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Aubyn Baker-Riley is an adult born in 1963 with a bicuspid aortic valve and coarctation of the aorta. She had open-heart surgery at 7 years of age to widen the coarctation and ablations in 2005, 2016 and 2018. She is currently in heart failure.

Although Aubyn is only in her 50s, it's unusual for someone like her to have made it to adulthood. Many people born in the 1960s, and even in the next decade, succumbed to their heart defects before reaching adulthood. What has Aubyn's path been like for her? What symptoms and warning signs has she had?

More importantly, what is it like to live in heart failure? What are some coping techniques that can be used if you are in heart failure? Aubyn answers these questions and more in today's episode of "Heart to Heart with Anna."

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