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Age 56-65
Interview 31  

Interview 31

Age at Interview: 59
Sex: Male
Background: Is divorced with no children and he is a retired dustman/ retained fire-fighter. Ethnic background/nationality: White/Scottish.
Brief outline:This man had two TIAs (aged 56) and a stroke (aged 57) due to clots. The stroke caused temporary paralysis on his left. Medication: perindopril, bendroflumethiazide (blood pressure), atorvastatin (cholesterol), aspirin, delayed release dipyridamole (antiplatelet).

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His brother told him that he should have phoned the doctor as soon as he felt unwell because more can be done to help in the first few hours.

 



Well, I woke up about 3 o'clock in the morning to go to the toilet, which is just through the door up the stairs and I felt… dizzy, giddy and I wondered what was wrong… then I sort of, sort of looked about me and realised there was something wrong. And I went, “Right, the best thing I can do is get and lie down” so I just went back to my bed and apparently that's the worst thing you could do because you're supposed to contact the doctor within 2 hours and they've got a better chance of managing to do some more for you that way.

And when you went into the hospital, or first your brother arrived?

Yeah.

Did he know what was happening?

Well, he'd an, he'd an idea I had a stroke, because that's what I said to my brother, that was at 9 o'clock in the morning and he gave me a row because of that. He said, “You should have phoned the doctor within 2 hours”.
Jonathan Miller - Stroke
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