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My 5-Year Tricuspid Valve Trial Journey: From Hospice to HeartBridge Collective
That's a powerful thing to sit with, looking at a timeline like this and remembering that the first mark on it was the moment I was dying, not just a data point on a chart. There is a profound difference between a clinical timeline and a lived human reality. When you look at a graphic like this, it's easy to see a series of successful regulatory steps, clinical trial milestones, and procedural breakthroughs. But behind that first entry on the chart was the reality of my life
Sep 113 min read


From Clinical Pioneer to Global Advocate: What 5 Years in a Heart Trial Taught Me About Resilience
In January 2021, I took a step into the unknown. If you had looked at my medical chart back then, you would have seen the clinical reality: torrential tricuspid regurgitation. But charts don’t capture what it actually feels like to live with a failing heart valve the exhausting fatigue, the shrinking of your daily world, and the heavy weight of knowing your options are running out. Then came an opportunity to participate in the #TriscendII Early Feasibility clinical trial Thi
Jun 303 min read


From Intensive Follow-Up to Silence
Early follow-ups kept me seen. Then came the silence. As part of an Early Feasibility Study , my first year after receiving a...
Aug 21, 20252 min read


Data Doesn’t Live in This Body—I Do
Without patients, your data is just numbers. Data doesn’t sign consent forms while shaking from exhaustion. Data doesn’t wonder if today...
Aug 19, 20251 min read
"If no one else was telling their story, then maybe I needed to tell mine. And maybe, just maybe, that would give others permission to share theirs too."
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