As the year ends, I thought I’d reflect on what happened in 2023 regarding SCA UK. After seven years of running as a relatively informal group, we registered as a bona fide charity at the beginning of November 2022 (thanks to some help from the Resuscitation Council UK). Charitable status had been on my mind … Read more
If your heart stopped beating during a cardiac arrest, were you dead? Modern resuscitation capabilities force us to reevaluate what it really means to die. For cardiac arrest survivors, the fact that your heart stopped for minutes but you are now alive again profoundly challenges assumptions about the finality of death. Your extraordinary experience crossing … Read more
We’ve all been there – comparing our recovery journey to someone else’s. “Mary was back at work after only a month!” “John was running marathons six months later!” It’s tempting to measure our own progress against others, but the truth is that every survivor’s path is different. In this article, I’ll explore why no two … Read more