The Roslyn spirit remains alive and well.
This time, it concerns the heart condition of Roberta Mueller, a Roslyn native and attorney, who is making a solid recovery from a heart failure illness.
Beginning last winter, Mueller, who is also the mother of a 14-year old adopted son, was hospitalized for the condition. According to her mother, Eleanor, she received an LVAD device, which abated the situation somewhat. However, Mueller recently received a heart transplant at New York Presbyterian, all with terrific results.
“Her recovery has been fantastic,” Eleanor Muller told The Roslyn News.
The LVAD device, Eleanor Mueller said, kept her daughter alive, “but did not make the quality of her life any better.”
Still, as soon as Mueller came back from the hospital last winter, she began working again as an attorney. In addition, her health has taken a turn for the better.
“[Roberta] is free of the batteries and tethers of the LVAD, and in time, can look forward to returning to her home, her law office, and her life,” her mother said.
In November 2013 and March 2014, The Roslyn News published two stories on Mueller’s predicament. Eleanor Mueller would like the community to know that the response was both timely and helpful.
“I did not know exactly what kind of help I needed from the article, and…there was little anyone could do, but I did appreciate…whatever replies the article generated,” Eleanor Mueller added.
In March, Roberta’s mother said that the November 2013 article did elicit some phone calls, including a woman who also had an LVAD device.
“The people from her law office have been wonderful about keeping her company when she was in the hospital and I can only hope that things will get better and her life can return to a little more normal one,” Eleanor Mueller said.
And now, seven months after the problem was detected, it appears that Roberta Mueller will be able to do just that.
