Today the Miss girls, Rachel and myself went to visit the Lillehei Heart Institute at the U of M campus. You know I didn't really know what to expect on this service day, but I am so glad I was able to be apart of the day. This is what the Lillehei Heart Institute is, this was taken directly from their website because I would not have explained it correctly. "The Lillehei Heart Institute is a premier clinical and basic science research institute focusing on cardiovascular genomics, heart development, heart regeneration, stem cell therapies, personalized medicine, heart failure, vascular biology, and device design to treat cardiovascular disease."
We got to go on a tour and we stopped into the lab. We got to experience a real angio plasty being performed on a patient who waved to us while her heart was being fixed! It was so weird, so cool, and so gross all at the same time! It was a very memorable experience that I will surely never forget. The doctor who performed the surgery took us all to his office and showed us pictures and explained everything in detail with what he had just done on the women. He also talked about the heart and all of the different heart functions and motions and oh my gosh it was unbelievably cool! (: just so EVERYONE(who's reading this)knows... it's my birthday in T-minus 1 hour and 10 minutes! Ah! Sweet 16! (: love you all!
Love forever and always,
Corrina Swiggum
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