Interview HA29
Age at interview: 64
Age at diagnosis: 54
Brief Outline: Heart attack 1994, in hospital for five days. Current medication' aspirin, simvastatin, lisinopril, bendrofluazide
Background: Retired Catering Manager; Married, 3 children
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He felt he shouldn't be the one having a heart attack, but felt better when someone even younger...
He felt he shouldn't be the one having a heart attack, but felt better when someone even younger...
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There's other people who sit down at desks, you know bigger than me, so 'Why me?' and I was angry as well, it's hard to explain. You don't think you've survived and thank god you have, but it was a couple of days later when somebody else came in to the hospital who was younger than me, because everyone else in this ward was older and I was the youngest, and when this person came in who was younger than me, I felt a lot better. It's a terrible thing to say now, but I did.
His heart attack ten years ago with no complications since, has not prevented him from going on...
His heart attack ten years ago with no complications since, has not prevented him from going on...
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So this time it's a holiday for us; about ten islands in about fourteen days round the Caribbean and every other day, we're snorkelling. Not bothered about seeing the sites of plantations and that, we've done all that. Get me in the water, the snorkelling. I can't dive because of my asthma but I'd love to, so I can snorkel.
You can do anything you want if you're fit enough and you don't have complications after a heart attack. I pity the people who do have complications and I come across an awful lot of them as Chairman and I sympathise with them. But even they can get over it and a lot have.