COUNTY LIFE
Heart disease often lies silent providing no visible symptoms: Carolann Corado shares her experience
Carolann Corado is recovering from cardiac bypass surgery in December. (Courtesy photo)
By DANI BLACKBURN
Carolann Corado is not your typical heart patient. The health-conscious grandmother who was always on the go and worked long hours never showed any signs her heart wasn’t performing the way it should.
The 69-year-old has always called Montague County home. Born in Saint Jo, she grew up in Montague and now resides in Bowie. Her two children, Kevin Corado and Krista Duvall, also call Bowie their home.
She has spent her time living life to the fullest, working in a job she enjoys with the soil and water conservation districts, traveling with friends and watching her only grandchild, Halle, play volleyball and basketball.
Shortly before the Christmas holidays, her life changed in an instant when she went in for a checkup and her pulmonologist discovered an irregular heartbeat.
“He (pulmonologist) didn’t like that at all, so he picked up the phone and called a cardiologist. The cardiologist told me to come on over to Excel Cardiac Care, where she performed an EKG,” recalled Corado.
For the second time that day, a doctor was unhappy with the way Corado’s heart was working.
“She told me I needed to have a heart catheter, and honestly I thought ‘Oh my goodness.’ There’s nothing that made me think there was anything wrong with me- I had no symptoms,” explained Corado.
A week later she found herself undergoing cardiac bypass.
Read about her recovery and how she had no visible symptoms of heart disease in the mid-week News.
February is America Heart Month and we invite you to learn more about heart disease in this feature.
This weekend find the deals in the City of Bowie Community-wide garage sales April 26-27.
See the map of a garage sale locations in Bowie in the mid-week Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
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The big take-away from Tuesday’s Bowie Business Boost was time: “It only takes six seconds to make an impression in life.”
Lorie Vincent, certified economic developer, professional trainer and writer, was speaker for program number three of Bowie Boost with a focus on “Memorable Marketing in a Post-Pandemic Era.”
She opened about how she had started her business, ‘Acceleration by Design,’ and things were “rocking,” when 2020 came and things changed with the worldwide pandemic. As things began to reopen it appeared there were more opportunities but also more challenges.
Vincent laughed as she showed a Richard Simmons “Sweating to the Oldies,” infomercial that became one of the most popular and still running ads.
“Can you believe back then we would call a 1-800 number and give someone our credit card? That is crazy. They used big music, big voices and big adjectives,” exclaimed Vincent.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
(Top photo) Lorie Vincent, Acceleration by Design, discussed how marketing has flipped upside-down in this post-pandemic era. She spoke at the Bowie Business Boost part 3. (Photo by Barbara Green)
Enjoy an all-you-can-eat breakfast and support the Bowie Senior Citizens Meals on Wheels program on April 27.
Serving will be 7:30 to 10 a.m. in the center at 501 Pelham. For $10 feast on biscuits and gravy, bacon, sausage, pancakes, scrambled eggs and hash browns, plus coffee, tea and orange juice.
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