Elizabeth Warren Instagram – My mother’s birthday was Valentine’s Day. We both loved her special connection to the holiday. When I was a girl, I got some heart-shaped pans from the dime store and started baking her a heart-shaped cake every year. I took some time this past weekend to keep up the tradition. When she was in her 80s, she was in the hospital for some minor surgery. The night before she was scheduled to go home, she said to my daddy, “Don, there’s that gas pain again.” Then she died. The autopsy showed she had advanced heart disease—never diagnosed, never treated. Later, I learned that heart disease is the #1 killer of women. No longer considered just a “man’s disease,” doctors do a much better job screening and treating women for cardiovascular disease today than when my mother had her heart attack. But because of our health care system, not everyone can get the care they need. So today, I’m remembering my mother, and I’m committed to keeping up the fight for health care as a basic human right.