Main text originally posted into the Facebook Group 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 … Read more
Well the last time I left a note was a couple of months after my SCA in September 2016. By November I had also suffered a pulmonary embolism caused in part, the doctors thought, by the implanting of my ICD. So after another stay in the emergency unit I was put onto a blood thinner, Rivaroxiban … Read more
After being alerted by a friend about a cardiac arrest on an episode of Eastenders (11.09.17) I was curious to see for myself how this was portrayed. I didn’t see the episode on the day so managed to download it from IPlayer, and although the CPR scene showed Kush’s life being saved, (which if one … Read more