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Aged 81 plus
Interview HA15  

Interview HA15

Age at Interview: 84
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 81
Background: Retired Traffic Warden; Married, 3 children
Brief outline:Heart attack January 2000. Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, May 2000. Current Medication: clopidogrel, frusemide, GTN.


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She took plenty of exercise and plenty of rest, which helped her to recover from bypass surgery.

 



You must give yourself something to look forward to and something to do within the capabilities, your capabilities of doing it and I think that is as simple as that. That's all I can say and you have friends and you appreciate friends and you try and live the life you did before. 

But you can't do it suddenly; you've got to do it gradually. You've got to float around like some injured bird for a little while until your wings have healed and then you can go out. Plenty of exercise within reason, even if it's only slow walking. Slow walking and then you get faster, you get to be able to speak to people for longer periods and you get to be able to pick up where you left off. I did.

I made myself do it but I didn't overdo it, when I was tired I went to bed. Not set up but laid out, went to bed so that every part of my body was relaxed. I didn't care what people thought I went to bed whenever I felt like going to bed and maybe for just an hour and it was enough and then you get up and go again. It's just plain common sense I think.
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