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Interview HF03  

Interview HF03

Age at Interview: 64
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 63
Background: Retired engineering worker; married with 1 child.
Brief outline:Heart attacks in 1976 and 1986. Angina 1991. Heart bypass 1991. Heart failure diagnosed 2002.


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Sees his GP for follow-up care every 6 months.

 



Well my, well I've seen him quite a few times because he was building me up. The doctor, I've been to see him quite a number of times because he built me up on the tablets. But the last time I seen him it was six months ago, almost six months because he said leave it six month and come and see me, which I'm going to do, shortly you know. Oh but I have seen the nurse, the nurse, the nurse there also had like they check up on the heart, I was there last week in fact and they do, check my blood pressure and oh they took blood samples because these, they took blood samples and a water, a sample of water. And they have to check up, apparently you can get liver trouble with some of these tables or kidney problems and that, so they have to keep a tight check on them you now. I have to go back in six months time in fact so that's it you know.

 
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