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Interview HA11  

Interview HA11

Age at Interview: 46
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 42
Background: Operational Risk Manager; Married, 1 child
Brief outline:Heart attack February 1999. Angioplasty and stent, February 1999. Current medication: aspirin, ramipril, simvastatin


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He was able to adopt his daughter from China three years after his heart attack.

 



But we'd had a trip to China planned and paid for in, well we paid for the flights in April and that was just too much for me, we cancelled it. My doctor and consultant both said that there was no reason why we shouldn't go. It was a seven day trip but it was just too far away in too short a time so it was disappointing. But it was just, that was just one thing, it was sort of a hurdle too soon I think.   

We've adopted a little girl, which I'm not sure but it does make it a lot more difficult if you have health issues before you get approved and my consultant was very helpful in writing to social services. We adopted our daughter from China so we did make the trip, that was one of the reasons why we were going originally. 

[My wife] to this day I think, still thinks I engineered all this so I didn't have to get on a plane to go so far because I'm not, I'm not a great flier. But that was another big leap, even though it was sort of three years after the event once again that was, you know that really was going into the unknown and going to Beijing and then flying down into southern China. 

But I think by then I was more comfortable that there was and there's no reason to think that there is another heart attack on its way.
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