This series by WBBM's Steve Miller is a personal look into heart disease - inside the doctor's office and the operating room - four months after he underwent emergency triple bypass surgery.
Here are some of the faces behind the stories...
Bypass Surgery
Howard Southerland, 64, of N.C. undergoes triple bypass surgery. Dr. Richard Lee and his team operate on his heart.
This all started with my doctor and his nurse practitioner Donna McGregor pushing me to have a treadmill stress test. Because heart disease runs in my family.
I wish I had had the foresight to document my own feelings on the eve of bypass surgery. But since I did not, other people with graciously agreed to talk with me hours before their own bypass surgery - one of the was Muhammed Hassan.
"Big breath in and hold it." The beginning of my cardiac rehab.
Web Exclusive Video Footage from Inside the Operating Room
This footage was shot during a triple bypass surgery preformed by Steve Miller's surgeon Dr. Richard Lee. A special thanks to Howard Southerland, the patient (pictured at left).
This footage was shot during Sergio Isunza's angiogram preformed by doctor is Dr.Nirat Beohar. You can read/listen to more about the procedure below.
This footage was shot during Ana Arman's stress test. You can read/listen to more from the procedure below.
WBBM's Steve Miller had triple heart bypass surgery four months ago, and he's been reporting on his experience with heart disease. Recently, he observed a bypass operation at Northwestern.
WBBM's Steve Miller had heart bypass surgery four months ago, and he's been reporting on his experience with heart disease. Recently, he was in the operating room for a bypass operation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
WBBM's Steve Miller had heart bypass surgery four months ago, and he's been reporting on his own experience with heart disease. Now he reports on other people who have shared their stories on the eve of their surgery.
He flunked two treadmill stress tests, then chalked up a worrisome angiogram. Then four months ago, WBBM's Steve Miller had triple heart bypass surgery. He continues his reports now on heart disease.
WBBM's Steve Miller has been describing his own experiences with heart disease - first flunking two stress tests, then taking the test that would determine whether he needed surgery. Here's that report.
WBBM's Steve Miller has been describing his own experience with heart disease - four months now since his triple heart bypass surgery. He continues his reports with a look at the test that found the problem and changed his life.
WBBM's Steve Miller had heart bypass surgery four months ago. Today he continues his story about heart disease with a look at the risk factor that's unchangeable: family history.
Imagine going in for a routine medical test - and less than two weeks later you're having triple heart bypass surgery. That's what happened to WBBM's Steve Miller. Today he begins his series with "Life as a Cabbage."
