by Sallie Crawley | Sep 28, 2026 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery
“I don’t remember much of my time in intensive care.” It’s something I hear often from people recovering from heart surgery, a cardiac arrest, or another major cardiac event. Some people remember flashes of images. Others remember strange...
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 2, 2025 | Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Pumphead, or Postperfusion Syndrome to give its scientific name, may or may not have been something you have heard of, let alone experienced. Some of you may be thinking it sounds like part of a car! However, for many, the post-op brain fog is very real. Doctors...
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...
