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Happy Valentine’s Day. No
matter how you celebrate, I hope you get the opportunity to show some love
to the people you care about — and you also feel loved today.
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. In fact, I
have a box of valentines that he gave her all those years ago.
I loved my mother’s special connection to Valentine’s Day, too. 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 we lost
our mother. Daddy had been sitting with her when she leaned forward and
said, "Don, there's that gas pain again."
I was almost too shocked to cry. I just couldn't believe it. How could
this have happened?
We found out that she had advanced heart disease — never diagnosed, and
never treated. Despite her regular trips to the doctor for check-ups, no
one had any idea.
I would later learn that heart disease is the #1 killer of women. No
longer considered just a “man’s disease,” doctors do a much better job
screening and treating women for cardiovascular disease today than they
did when my mother had her heart attack.
Even though my mother is gone now, I still have my heart-shaped pans. This
weekend, I baked a heart-shaped cake, and opened up the box filled with
old valentines from my daddy. It’s how I remember her.
[1]Elizabeth Warren holding a cake
And I’m also doing something more to help remember her: 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.
It feels like the Trump administration is doing everything they can to
keep that from happening, to be frank. His Big, Ugly Bill took away health
care from 17 million people so he could give tax cuts for billionaires.
His cuts to the NIH meant that hundreds of millions of dollars in research
funding for cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease simply
vanished.
So I’m staying in this fight to protect health care and get more and more
patients the support they need to live long, healthy lives — no matter how
hard Republican extremists try to cut it.
I’m grateful you’re in this fight by my side.
Happy Valentine’s Day,
Elizabeth
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