hooklineandsinker

Hey, great AmA. Just like to say thanks for promoting therapy. As someone who has only just started on their road to recovery...its good to see someone stepping up and waving a flag. Therapy helps, no doubt about it. I just wish I could have realised this 10yrs ago, ( rather than 3 weeks!) I'm thinking about baring all at the start of Mental Health Awareness Month, for better or worse.

Cheers dude!

I had a similar experience when I had just turned 30. A ruptured artery (or is it aorta? Iforget the correct term) caused a huge blood clot to become stuck in my heart, which then could not function, causing a heart attack.

This happened at about 1am, I distinctly remember getting my now wife to hit me on the back as hard as she could repeatedly as it seemed to be the only thing to ease the pain. I was sweating, shaking coughing and out of breath. It was almost like having way to much to drink as I slurred and span. I didn't go to hospital or call an ambulance because I was convinced that it was something else...

By about 11am the next day when none of the symptoms had eased, I went to the hospital. They shot me full of drugs to keep me going before putting me straight into an ambulance and 'blue lighting' me to Harefield Royal Bromton hospital, as they specialise in this area. Crazy thing was the ambulance ride there, the paramedics were playing the Pulp fiction soundtrack lol.....bizarre but fitting!

Harefield worked on me like an F1 pitcrew and after a long time off work and rehabilitation I'm now OK, although I'll be on a whole bunch of meds for the rest of my life.

One of the surgeons who operated on me actually took photos on his phone of the blood clot that they removed because it was so big, its no doubt been posted in a journal somewhere lol