Women and Heart Disease

My husband and I were visiting my 80-year-old mother-in-law, Eileen, in the hospital the other day after her open-heart surgery.

She showed me the incision running down her chest and looked at me ruefully. She said, “I guess I need to throw out all of those bikini tops I have.” I said, “No way!

We can sew some padding in to the cups. When we go visit my family this Christmas, we can tie them around our heads and wear...