Richard Houghton
Richard Houghton is one of SCA UK's longest-standing contributors, writing since 2016. A cardiac arrest survivor and sailor, he has chronicled the full arc of long-term recovery across eight posts spanning seven years, covering mental health, ICD replacement, practical challenges of living with a device, and rebuilding life and identity.
Dare to dream update
I am writing this post for all the right reasons in the hope it is well received and through it some people might sense the art of the possible. I am not writing it for any egotistic reasons or to solicit any endorsements for I have far too much humility for that. I previously wrote ...
Dare to dream
Main text originally posted into our community November 2015, epilogue June 2016 and republished with permission Little did I think as I lay in hospital post SCA that one day I would be sitting here today in this place writing this post. At 4am in June 2013 I suffered an SCA whilst sleeping, my partner ...
Altered Minds
It’s odd being an SCA survivor because you do seem to think differently to how you used to. I was stood on a platform yesterday 6ft high using an angle grinder on our boat hull. Firstly I noted that the on switch locked on which meant if I dropped it then it might not turn ...