Ingrid Gardner
Sudden cardiac arrest survivor with an ICD, sharing my story of recovery and raising awareness
I didn’t know I needed the new me
Today I am 3! I always ponder my survival at this time of year but my thoughts are a little different this year. Of course my thanks go out to my saviour and the ambulance crew who helped me be here today, and, to my family, friends and SCA UK for their continuing support. My ...
Not all super heroes wear capes
Meeting my saviour, by Ingrid Gardner In October 2016 a stranger found me collapsed face down at the end of my friend’s driveway, I was a lifeless heap of a person making strange noises and foaming at the mouth. She thought I was drunk but very bravely approached me anyway. Quickly discovering all was not ...
From pallbearer to pail bearer
My working life has been quite varied with no direction of a career choice (hotel trade, estate agent, prison service) until about 4 years ago when I started working in an office in a shop part time. The premises also housed a funeral directors and part of my job as an admin assistant was to ...