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Interview HF27  

Interview HF27

Age at Interview: 59
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 55
Background: Registered nurse; married 2 children.
Brief outline:May have silent heart disease. Heart bypass 1999. Heart failure diagnosed. 2002 angioplasty and stent.


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Prefers not to be away from home in case she's taken ill.

 



It's actually made a great difference to our travelling, the illness. We were never great at going, we've never been one for going on holiday going abroad because we have birds and dogs and fish and, until recently, rabbits. When we did go our sons actually looked after them but now they've both moved away, it's much more difficult. So we'd never go away for more than a week in the past and I suppose over the last 4 years never more than a couple of days or even less than that…

So it's actually made us very worried about being away and even going to conferences or courses, I actually went on a conference once and actually became ill there and had to be brought home. So now I can't go out to a conference where you have to stay overnight. My mentor is now, one of great mentors in nursing older people, is now Professor of Nursing in Northern Ireland and asks me over frequently, to perhaps share my experiences of person-centred caring and you know, individual care for people, and I can't go because I just can't take the risk of being away.  

Being away from home, being away from my husband, being away from my local GP, being away from local consultants and from my local hospital - I'm just, we're just... my husband possibly more than me, much too scared! We've actually talked about moving house, we'd actually like to move down towards the South Coast but it's not just moving away from our family, it's moving away from all our support links!  
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