Olive Durrington
Cardiac patient
"I was scared before the operation. But I needn't have worried. Two days after surgery I was back home walking about."
“Doctors told me I had a sticky valve but that I was too old to have open heart surgery because of the risks and recovery time. Instead, I was offered a new treatment where a tube would be fed into my heart through a small hole in the top of my leg."
I'm 88 and my family is everything to me. Last year I found I was unable to walk across the room without becoming totally breathless.
Doctors told me I had a sticky valve but that I was too old to have open heart surgery because of the risks and recovery time.
Instead, I was offered a new treatment where a tube would be fed into my heart through a small hole in the top of my leg.
I don't mind admitting I was scared before I went to have the operation. But I needn't have worried. It was so easy and two days after surgery I was back home walking about.
I want to say thank you to the doctors and nurses who looked after me. They really were first class. If it wasn't for my rheumatism I would be fit as a fiddle."