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Aged 61-70
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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Describes how he feels when he's having a bad day.

 



Well I feel pretty good, in fact some days I'm not so good. I have days when I feel wrong and I don't always feel right. You have these days when you don't always feel one hundred percent and for what reason I don't know, whether I've been doing something, too much previous like too much walking about, or doing something I shouldn't be doing and it's caught up with me, I think sometimes there's a little bit of that. 

Can you describe what it feels like, what you feel like when you're not right?

Well that's very difficult. Now a lot of people say what do you feel like, if you said to the doctor he wouldn't understand, I just don't feel well. And you feel in your mind you don't feel well, there's nothing physically or there's no pain you just feel you don't feel well in yourself, there's something, I can't describe it. People ask you and I couldn't tell you, I just don't feel well. It's different if you've got angina you say I've got a pain down my front, or I've got this, that and the other, but with [this] when you feel wrong, you feel wrong. 
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