Girl, 17, fitted with life-saving pacemaker after school screening spots major heart defect
The Sun – 8th October 2016 A student told she had a major heart defect after attending a school screening has been fitted with a life-saving pacemaker – at the age of just 17. Read more
myheart e-newsletter Jun-Aug
Dear myheart members Please find in this newsletter: Bridges Walk 2016 Upcoming myheart meeting CRY Cake Bake and National Awareness Week Stand at the Congenital Heart Disease Conference Activity on the myheart website Feedback Social Media Read the full newsletter here.
Stand at the Congenital Heart Disease Conference 2016
This established annual course runs for nurses and Allied Health Practitioners working with infants, children and young people who have congenital heart disease and related cardiac conditions. The course is run collaboratively by the Practice Educators and Specialist Staff of the London Congenital Heart Centres and attracts attendees from Cardiac Centres in the UK, Ireland, Europe and further afield. The
CRY Heart of London Bridges Walk 2016
Sunday, 26th June witnessed a huge number of walkers gathered at London’s scenic green space, Potters Fields Park, with 1,266 walkers registering to take part in CRY’s 10th annual Heart of London Bridges Walk. myheart members, L-R- Mhairi Morrison, Laura Gibbs and Amanda Okunola As ever, it was incredibly moving to see so many people coming together to
A few more tests
For those of you following my story, you will be aware that I went to the doctor worried that my WPW had returned. Since then, I had another consultation with a cardiologist who confirmed that it wasn’t WPW, but explained that what I was feeling was most likely an ectopic beat. This is perfectly normal, but can be what triggers
myheart Apr-May e-newsletter
Dear myheart members We would like to give a warm welcome to our 50 new members who have joined myheart since January, many of whom have kindly said that they have found the myheart website with information about conditions and personal stories from other members very useful. We are very grateful to our members who have shared their own experiences
WPW – the risk of return
I had been doing pretty well in my training, but on a couple of runs my heart went a little faster than usual. To be on the safe side, I referred myself for an ECG. I took the result to my GP, who took a look, said it seemed fine, but then paused. He looked something up, drew himself a
myheart hard copy Newsletter-2015
Read myheart hard copy newsletter-2015 here.
Running in the Rain
The Easter weekend brought chocolate for many, hot cross buns for some, but for me it brought a 30k run through the wrath of Storm Katie! It was a hard, hilly run, but made infinitely better by the kindness of a family living in a tiny sandstone Cotswolds village who re-filled by water bottle for me when I reached the
myheart March e-newsletter
Dear myheart members Thank you to all members who helped raise awareness of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) andmyheart last year. The hard copy newsletter featuring last year’s activities will be mailed to you shortly. 2016 has begun on a very exciting note for myheart . Whilst the myheart website was re-launched in January and has managed to gather
