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Hope After Heart Failure
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Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Phoenix Rising Media LLC
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A two-time heart failure survivor's honest guide to the recovery no one prepares you for - the fear, the fatigue, the fog, and the faith that carries you through.
Heart failure is not just a medical event. It is a life-altering experience that touches every part of who you are - and the hardest part often begins after the emergency is over, when the machines go quiet, the doctors step away, and you are sent home to figure out the rest.
Greg R. Traver knows that silence. He survived three widow-maker heart attacks and two episodes of heart failure, including roughly three weeks intubated in an intensive care unit in 2017. In ten compassionate chapters, he opens the door to the world beyond the emergency department:
The fear that lingers over every flutter in your chest
The fatigue that weighs like an anchor and outlasts every explanation
The cardiac fog that steals your words and your focus
The quiet shift in every relationship around you
The slow, uncertain work of trusting your own body again
Each chapter pairs a practical recovery theme with a faith-based reflection, a guided meditation, and a workbook section for putting it into practice. Traver writes with the authority of someone who has lived what medicine cannot explain. Doctors can do great things, but they can't tell you how to live with what comes after.
This is the book he wished he had when his own journey began. For the newly diagnosed, for the long-term survivor who wonders if there is more than managing an illness, and for the husbands, wives, and children who love them - a companion for the whole road, from diagnosis to living whole again.
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