Journeys
Te Aturangi
Cardiac arrest, Heart attack, Rheumatic fever and heart disease
After driving himself to hospital, Te Aturangi suffered both a heart attack and cardiac arrest. ...
Rachel
Heart attack
Rachel talks about the heart attack symptoms she experienced and her struggle to identify them as a ...
Helen
Heart attack
Helen talks about her experience of a heart attack and her perspective looking to the future....
Diann
Carer’s story, Heart attack
Diann talks about her family’s history with heart disease and losing her husband to a heart ...
Stephen
Heart attack
“There was no pain at all, there was no clutching of the chest, no saying ‘ooh-oh really ...
Victor
Heart attack
Aged 82 at the time of his heart attack, medical staff weren’t sure if Victor could cope with open...
John
Heart attack
John was convinced that the pain across his chest was indigestion – not a heart attack....
David
Heart attack
Heart trouble has accompanied other life-changing events for David. But he’s kept trekking on....
Linda
Cardiac arrest, Heart attack
“He said that my heart had stopped and they’d just jolted me back to life. I just thought…they...
Lyall
Angina, Carer’s story, Heart attack, High cholesterol
Unlike his father who died suddenly of a heart attack at 54, Lyall was given a second chance....