First-hand accounts from people who have survived a sudden cardiac arrest — the event itself, the recovery, and life beyond it. Personal, honest and written by those who have been there.
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 … Read more
I woke up in a hospital bed in the CCU ward of the Royal Free Hospital on 22nd December, 1994. My wife, Adele, was sitting beside my bed and I asked her what was happening and where was I? I had arrived at my office the previous morning to collect some files, and had just … Read more
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 … Read more