Interview HF12  

Interview HF12

Age at Interview: 75
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 65
Background: Retired miner; married with 3 children.

Brief outline:Heart attack 1971. Angina 1973. Increasingly breathless and tired during 1990s during which heart failure diagnosed. Prostate cancer 2000. Gout and kidney failure 2002.


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He becomes aware of his heart beat and gets breathless if he lifts things.

 



Shortness of breath, you know, wanting to do things more or less like out of the ordinary, such as gardening, you know. Out of my ordinary scope, of course, I can't, because shortness of breath steps in and you can feel your heart sometimes, you know? You can feel it's there, it starts to... you can feel the beat. And when I start to feel the beat then I know it's time to slow down. If I'm making an effort, such as lifting anything, you know, lifting anything I find I've got to quickly get rid of that load, that weight, because it starts the shortness of breath. And you feel as though there's something there in your chest. And all these sort of things happen but, you begin to live with it, and you automatically, you know, stop or slow down whatever you're doing. And that's how… There's a continual thing there to remind you, you know, there's this little… you just can't explain what it is but it tells you that you're not A1, there's something there. 

Heart failure
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