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Interview HF37  

Interview HF37

Age at Interview: 54
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 49
Background: Receptionist/telephonist; single with no children.
Brief outline:Diabetes for many years. Heart attacks 1992, 1995, 1998. Not sure when heart failure diagnosed, possibly 1998.


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He can feel insecure and anxious at night unless his girlfriend is with him.

 



Yes I live on my own but in a way, that's another thing after the third heart attack... because the, when everything is happening early in a morning that is one of the things, well not early but you know about 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock in  the morning or something, which is very difficult to get hold of anyone and there I feel some kind of insecurity when I sleep at night. So though I got my flat and everything, most of the nights I stay with my girlfriend, who lives in a different place, so I'm there almost every night. That gives some kind of security, and I feel it myself, if she's not there I stay till 1 or 2 o'clock in a morning or 3 o'clock in a morning. If she is there by 11 o'clock I am sleeping, and thank God she's always there! [laughs].

So you actually get a better night's sleep?

Yes

You're more relaxed if you're with someone?

With someone yes. This is very, very important because it's all kind of thinking in your mind, what would happen with this... I when I go to bed if I'm well, you know I get, make sure the telephone is there, make sure the spray is there and this nitrate spray, spray for the heart problem is there, and this sort of thing is a kind of security. 
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