Gord and Angie: grateful for life-saving research
Winter 2025 Impact Report
Beat as one
When he fell ill, avid birdwatchers Gord McNulty and wife Angie knew that his condition was serious enough to cancel a much-anticipated ornithologist’s convention. Gord was in and out of hospitals for weeks as doctors searched for answers. “My condition deteriorated to the point where I couldn’t walk,” Gord recalls. Released with medication for suspected Parkinson’s, he returned four days later.
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A journalist for nearly forty years, Gord knows that facts matter. It was second nature to push for answers. Rather than the suspected Parkinson’s, Stiff Person Syndrome or cancer diagnoses, a high fever and brain bleed revealed endocarditis – a rare, potentially fatal infection of the inner lining (endocardium) of the heart’s chambers and valves.
Gord and Angie McNulty
Transferred to Hamilton General Hospital for life-saving surgery, the affected mitral valve was successfully replaced with a pig’s valve. Forty-seven days later, Gord returned home. He and Angie are grateful for the research that saved his life: “Our monthly gift is a wonderful investment – leaving a gift to Heart & Stroke in our Wills will help ensure a sound future for the Foundation.”
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