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Interview HF04  

Interview HF04

Age at Interview: 65
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 59
Background: Retired nursing auxiliary; married with 2 children.
Brief outline:Angina 1984. Retired on health grounds 1986. 1995-6 noticed breathlessness, heart failure diagnosed.


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She only stays in hotels with lifts and chooses less active holidays than before.

 



Well no I, if we go on holiday I've got to pick a holiday where there isn't a lot of activity in it, so now it's more or less just laze around by the pool. Or we go a short walk or we'll go on bus trips so that there is, we see everything but we don't have to do the walking. 

So in a way you have to plan your holiday?

Oh yes, yes very, we do have to plan our holidays to see, we have to certainly make sure that it's not too active. I mean neither of us are getting any younger and we like to get away - we used to have a caravan but we've had to do away with the caravan because I couldn't help to do, pull it about or put the awning up or anything like that, it was just too much.

When you do, you always read the brochure and you try to find out from somebody else if they've been there, what it is like, if there is a lot of climbing or if there's, because a lot of the hotels don't have lifts, and if there was a lot of stairs I couldn't manage, I couldn't manage to go. 

 

 
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