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Age 66-75
Interview 20  

Interview 20

Age at Interview: 68
Sex: Female
Background: Is a married mother and has 2 adult children. She works as a temporary legal secretary. Ethnic background/nationality: White/English.
Brief outline:This woman had a stroke due to a clot from her heart at the age of 67 which caused mild visual loss and temporary speech problems. Medication: amplodopine, atenolol (blood pressure), simvastatin (cholesterol), warfarin, (anticoagulation).

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Always reads the health pages in the daily newspapers but sometimes gets frustrated by apparently contradictory information.

 



The trouble is when you start looking at things like that, you get contradictory stories. You look on one thing and it says something and you look at something else and it says something different. I'm a great reader of the Express and the Mail. I always look at their, their health thing and get all sorts of tips from that and that sometimes mentions stroke and things. But I don't, I don't generally, no because you start getting into the realms of what you don't want to know possibly. 

What's your view on getting health information?

Well, I avidly read, as I said, the Express and the Mail on Tuesdays when they both do a health thing and I sort of look through for bits that interest me and I've got a whole pile of pages that I've saved under there that are giving tips about various things. I don't look at them very often but occasionally I'll look back on something and, and say, “Well, that would do me good or that would do me bad” but you know they have come out recently the fact that omega 3 you're wasting your time. What do you believe? You know, I always feel that I try and do the right thing I only eat omega 3 eggs and I like eggs and I feel if I've got eggs that's doing me good instead of doing me harm, then I might as well, I know it costs more and I'm probably an idiot but I just feel, yeah, just doing the right thing but you never know, do you? [Laughter].
Jonathan Miller - Stroke
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