On a rain-spattered Tuesday morning in January, I found myself composing yet another email about the difference between a heart attack and a cardiac arrest. As we journey with our cause and SCA UK celebrates its tenth anniversary, I’ve periodically attempted to correct this fundamental misconception on the National Health Service’s website. Type “cardiac arrest” … Read more
Well, here we are again, at the close of another year. And what a year it’s been for Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK. It feels like yesterday I was writing my reflections for 2023, and now we are approaching 2025 and the tenth anniversary of Thirteen Lost Souls meeting in a London pub! It’s been a … Read more
After my idiopathic, out-of-hospital SCA in July 2021, I’ve often wondered what could happen now in terms of my health. At first I had a blissful ignorance about what had happened to me. This was in part due to having had a hypoxic brain injury, which caused me to have memory loss. I also felt … Read more