by Sallie Crawley | Jun 17, 2021 | Acceptance, Emotions, Hope, Interviews, Pain, Podcast
Click play to hear the full interview ⬇ Tony tells us about the day when his heart attack started and how he thought he had COVID. In January 2020 Tony decided to change his life and pursue his passion working as a dog behaviourist. It was probably not the...
by Sallie Crawley | Jun 2, 2021 | Energy, Exercise, Hope, Interviews, Podcast
Click play to hear the full interview ⬇ Angela is an exercise coach and a cardiac nurse. In the last seven years, she’s been specialising in cardiac rehabilitation exercise. She has quite a unique combination of skills. We chat about how in the UK cardiac rehab is...
by Sallie Crawley | Apr 20, 2021 | Acceptance, Blood pressure, Confidence, Emotions, Exercise, Hope, Podcast
She had been experiencing regular headaches and stress, at one point thought her blood pressure machine must have been broken. Who’d have thought about a heart attack. Constant headaches and stress Sara was fit, healthy and ate a good diet. She had been...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 30, 2021 | Acceptance, Emotions, Hope, Interviews, Podcast, Purpose
Ray Bishop was born with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. This did not affect his quality of life until after he had developed coronary heart disease. This was after many misdiagnoses. He was lucky that as by this time, cardiac ablation could be carried out on him for...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 10, 2021 | Acceptance, Emotions, Hope, Interviews, Podcast, Purpose, Therapy
In February 2019, Eliza had a successful heart transplant recipient at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, UK. It was a life-saving event that focussed her on fundraising and being a patient advocate. Eliza explains that she was born with congenital heart disease but...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 3, 2021 | Diabetes, Emotions, Hope, Interviews, Podcast, Purpose
Claire was nominated in 2020 for the BHF Heart Hero Awards. She has contributed in amazing ways to raise awareness of heart failure and has had many TV interviews, been in national papers and BHF publications. Claire tells us about her life growing up with type 1...