Life After Heart Surgery — When you are found to have a heart condition that in no doubt will kill you within the next two to four years you damned well want to do something about it and quickly. Enter the National Health Service with yearly scans, consultations with Cardiologists, and various Doctors who are…

And the journey of those around me — When it’s you facing a potentially life-threatening operation you can sink into yourself and concentrate only on your own survival. Dark thoughts cross the window of your mind, “What if I have a stroke under the anaesthetic? What if I get an infection?” …