"The nurses asked me if I felt dizzy or light-hearted but I told them I felt absolutely fine. They then told me my heart was beating seriously slow. The chest pain I'd had when I was trying to row earlier had disappeared and I had no other symptoms and therefore no idea whatsoever that anything was wrong with me. A cardiologist was concerned by my heart rhythm, so they admitted me as an in-patient and ran what felt like millions of tests and that's when I found out I'd had a mild heart attack and had heart disease."
"I felt as right as rain and had no idea anything was wrong with me at all. I was shocked."
"The care and kindness the staff showed me at St George's was amazing. I was so impressed with them and I love them all. Being in hospital for a period gave me first-hand experience of seeing how hard the doctors and nurses work,"
Matt Bishop, 62, experienced sudden severe chest pain while rowing with a personal trainer in south west London. He traveled by bus to St George's Hospital in Tooting and was placed on a heart monitor. Nurses discovered his heart rate was very slow despite him feeling well. Cardiologists admitted him, performed numerous tests, and diagnosed a mild heart attack and underlying heart disease. He received life-saving heart pump medication, underwent cardioversion, had a coronary stent placed, and received a pacemaker with an integrated defibrillator. He remained an in-patient for 29 days and praised the care and kindness of the hospital staff.
Read at www.standard.co.uk
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