by Sallie Crawley | Aug 17, 2026 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Stories & Inspiration, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Today I’m joined by filmmaker Andrew Pike, and we’re talking about something that many people experience after open-heart surgery, but far too many people are left to make sense of on their own. It is often called pumphead, although as you’ll hear in this...
by Sallie Crawley | Jul 6, 2026 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Pumphead and the Heart Brain Connection explained. If you are reading this, you’ve likely survived a major cardiac event and a complex surgery. You’ve been told the surgery was a success, and by all clinical markers, you are “mending.” Yet, inside, things...
by Sallie Crawley | Jun 8, 2026 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
“But mum, you can’t, not like coffee, that’s your signature drink”! Those were the words my daughter said after I told her I didn’t like coffee anymore. It was as much of a surprise for me, as I had always been a coffee snob. I liked it fresh brewed from ground beans,...
by Sallie Crawley | May 11, 2026 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Therapies, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
The fear of mortality is something most humans brush up against at some point in their lives. Usually, it’s fleeting, a passing thought late at night or after a loss. But when you’ve had a cardiac arrest, an implantable device, heart attack, or cardiac surgery,...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 30, 2026 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Podcast, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Do you ever read things on social media and wonder if it is true or not? I always find it worrying when it is connected to health and wellbeing. In this day and age with Artificial Intelligence, it is really hard to tell sometimes with images too. I have been fooled a...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 4, 2026 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Everyday Life, Work & Travel, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
I am writing this article in February 2026 and I am so fed up with the amount of rain we are having in the UK. I am really looking forward to some sunnier and warmer weather. We Brits can’t always be guaranteed of fine weather and after all I have been through these...
