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My mother was born on February 14, and she loved her special connection to
Valentine’s Day. From the time they were teenage sweethearts, my daddy
bought my mother a heart-shaped box of chocolates every year. I still have
a box of valentines that he gave her all those years ago.

I loved celebrating my mother's birthday and Valentine's Day as a
double-feature. When I was a little girl, I bought some heart-shaped pans
at the dime store. It became a family tradition: Every year, I baked my
mother a heart-shaped cake.

Decades later, when she was in her 80s, she had some minor surgery —
nothing serious. The day before she was scheduled to go home, she was in
good cheer. All the kids and grandkids came to visit, and we gathered in
her hospital room to tell funny stories. We laughed and had juice and
cookies. Finally, Daddy sent us all home, and we left that evening
expecting her to be released from the hospital the next day.

Then, in the middle of the night, my brother called. He said that our
mother was dead. Daddy had been sitting with her when she leaned forward
and said, "Don, there's that gas pain again." Then she died.

I was almost too shocked to cry. I just couldn't believe it. How could
this have happened?

The autopsy showed that she had advanced heart disease — never diagnosed
and never treated. Despite her regular trips to the doctor for check-ups
and repeated trips for "that gas pain," she had never been checked for
heart trouble. No one had any idea.

Later, I would learn that heart disease is the #1 killer of women. It was
considered a “man’s disease,” but doctors do a much better job screening
and treating women for it now than when my mother had her heart attack.

Even though my mother is gone now, I still have my heart-shaped pans. This
week, I baked a heart-shaped cake, and opened up the box filled with old
valentines from my daddy. It’s how I remember her.

[ [link removed] ]A photo of Senator Warren with a heart shaped cake

 
And I’m also doing something more: I’m fighting — with every bone in my
body — to make sure everyone can get the health care they need to live
long, healthy lives with the people they love. So you know I’m staying in
the fight to protect Medicare and the Affordable Care Act, no matter how
hard Republican extremists attack them. Health care is a basic human
right. And we fight for basic human rights.

I also want to make a pitch for one more program: Medicaid. Millions of
Americans with a history of heart disease, stroke, or other cardiovascular
diseases rely on Medicaid as their safety net. Look, we don’t know whose
baby is going to be born with a hole in her heart and run up $1 million in
medical bills in the first few months. We don’t know whose grandma is
going to have a massive stroke and need to go into a nursing home. But
what we do know is that as Americans, we all pitch in some nickels so that
if it happens to your family, the rest of us will all be there. I’m in
this fight for Medicaid all the way.

I’m grateful you’re on this team.

Happy Valentine’s Day to you and everyone you love,

Elizabeth







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