Week 1

We’ll discuss Chapter 1: Growing Up with Congenital Heart Defects

Some questions we’ll explore include:

What does it mean to grow up with a CHD?

What does it mean to grow up feeling different from your peers?

Week 2

We’ll discuss Chapter 2: How My CHD Defines Me and

The first 2 essays from Chapter 3: Being Active with CHD

Some questions we’ll explore include:

How does your CHD define you? Or NOT define you?

Week 3

We’ll discuss the last 2 essays from Chapter 3: Being Active with CHD and Chapter 4: CHDs Around the Globe

Some questions we’ll explore deal with living with your heart condition when life happens and you have to deal with new conditions (like arrhythmias) or additional surgeries and what extra measures you take to stay healthy when living your life.

A brief discussion about whether your parents ever told you stories of how they had to fight for your life.

Week 4: Jeopardy Game with questions related to Volume One: Survival. Come for the fun and the prizes!