Posts marking cardiac arrest anniversaries — re-birthdays, yearly reflections and the emotional significance of survival milestones, from one year to a decade and beyond.
Friday 19 June 2020 It’s 12 weeks to the day since receiving my Medtronic CRT-D implant. My initial arrest was back on the evening of 29 January. So I’ve been fairly isolated for much of the time, brilliantly supported by my wife and two cats. What a time to be ill – in the midst … Read more
It seems only last week I was writing a piece on the 3rd anniversary of my “minor” cardiac incident and referring to Paul Swindell’s doorstop post. And now, I am at the fourth anniversary, slightly older, slightly thinner, slightly greyer, and, possibly, slightly wiser. I am not sure that another year has given me any … Read more
On Sunday 16th March 2008 my heart stopped, this isn’t a romantic story of where I fall in or fall out of love. On this day the hardest working muscle in my body suddenly stopped working, I suffered a cardiac arrest. We all live life a little blindly, we learn from an early age about … Read more