by Sallie Crawley | Apr 20, 2021 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy, Stories & Inspiration, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
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 | Apr 13, 2021 | Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Stories & Inspiration, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Steve Wrigley was flying home when he had a cardiac arrest on a plane. Prior to this Steve was was fit and healthy, he loved adventure holidays that revolved around cycling. He went with friends he’d met on previous adventures on a trip to Bali. Steve shares his story...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 30, 2021 | Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy, Stories & Inspiration, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
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 19, 2021 | Podcast, Stories & Inspiration, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Just before her 50th birthday Tena was admitted to hospital with unstable angina, and this was just the beginning of her story. Tena lives with many cardiac and respiratory chronic illnesses and she shares with us her journey, and her coping mechanisms that helped her...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 10, 2021 | Podcast, Stories & Inspiration, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
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 | Podcast, Stories & Inspiration, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
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...
