Interview 21  

Interview 21

Age at Interview: 83
Sex: Female
Background: Is a widow and has no children. She does Voluntary work. Ethnic background/nationality: White/English.

Brief outline:She had a stroke due to a clot aged 82 which caused left weakness. Medication bendroflumethiazide, ramapril (blood pressure), aspirin (antiplatelet).

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Her GP apologised that he had not picked up that her balance problems were the start of her stroke.

 



It was last June. I hadn't been feeling very well and I felt my balance was a bit stupid, I felt almost as if I'd been drunk walking sometimes [laughter]. Anyhow, I went up, I went to see my doctor and he did all the tests, you know, blood pressure, etc, etc. He said, “No, you are fine” you know, “Go ahead, you're absolutely fine” and I think he thought I was just worrying about nothing you see.

As I say, I hadn't been , I hadn't been feeling well , when I eventually went back up to my GP he said, “I'm terribly sorry, I didn't catch, I didn't, I didn't spot it” and he said, “Sometimes you don't, you know, it's not, you can't sort of diagnose it” but I think he was quite, he felt quite guilty because [laughter], you know, that same evening, after he'd seen me in the afternoon , but I wouldn't have anything against him, you know , it's just one of those unfortunate things I think. And if he had spotted it, he couldn't have done anything about it. It was going to happen and it happened [laughter].

Jonathan Miller - Stroke
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