Ah, I see. Sorry, man.

Pardon my ignorance but is there any kind of treatment for that?

How did you manage a 30-foot fall?

Well we've all been given ICDs - implantable cardio defibrillators.

My brother and I were done on the same day, and as the condition and the specific method the ICDs were put in are fairly rare or at least obscure, we both had several medical and I think nursing students observing, and we're probably in several essays :joker:

It was 7am and we were on the way to Heathrow and in a faulty hire car and ended up in a water culvert , someone nearly died , months in hospital.

Ah.

Panic attacks sure-are awful. Besides taking too much of an edible and spacing out for 12 hours (even though you’re definitely not dying) there aren’t as many other acute waves that come on you and make you feel like you’re genuinely going to die than anxiety attacks, whether they’re mild or severe. It is horrible.

Sometimes it’s hard opening up to friends and family about being ill (whether it’s cancer or a new diagnosis of diabetes, or multiple sclerosis or panic attacks) because sometimes they’ll just lay it on too thick and get morbid in a way that makes the whole thing actually feel worse rather than better, even when it’s coming from a place of sympathy and love. But when it comes to anxiety attacks you’ve got to talk to someone. Your life’s never actually in danger (unless you have a heart problem or serious asthma on top of it) but it’s still a feeling that’s hard to just carry around with you if you’re not getting treated properly for it (and you might not need to if they’re only occasional/one-offs). So sometimes you just have to talk to someone who gets it and won’t keep probing you about a reason you’ve been having panic attacks (more times they come out of the blue rather than having any external stressor because it’s partly just actual biological stuff). Sometimes you just need space to come to terms with what’s going on rather than have other people hone in the morbidity of it too much but sometimes it helps to talk. No, you don’t want to waste NHS time but you’re better safe than sorry and a reassuring chat with the paramedic team can go a long way. You can waffle on about Angry Birds (if they still do that) for a minute to take your mind off it or you can just ask for general reassurance about the status of your heart and making sure that everything else is as it should be. It’s part of what they’re there for.

When I was 4 years old I was rushed to hospital in an ambulance with suspected meningitis.

When I was 11 years old I was going down a steep hill on my bike lost control, crashed into a car and was knocked out lost consciousness for a while so was red lighted to hospital

Broke my femur a few years ago in a car accident... hit by a drunk. Came off my motorbike when I was younger a few times... embarrassing because my Dad was a paramedic and he'd get to know about it instantly. He'd tell my Mum... nightmare ensued.

I remember the incident with your femur years ago. I’m so sorry you had to go through that.

I had an incident with my bike when I was 7. It was out of vehicles’ way (this was in the woods) but there was an issue with my break so I went tooth-first into a gate. To this day my front teeth are still slightly chipped at the bottom.

Front teeth as in “central incisors”. I’m nothing like a dentist so I fully had to Google the correct name for them.

Any of y’all take quinidine?

Not myself, dad, or brother. Not really close enough to uncles or cousins to ask.

I'd guess one of my uncles is, as he had known arrhythmia before the family Brugada was brought to light.

You don't have to asnwer this but is Brugada something you're personally familiar with?

No, not really. I just know a lot about medication.

Having said that though there is a male member of my family who’s been known to have cardiac and hypertensive issues so maybe that’s where some of it comes from. I’ve kind of seen it year in, year out.

Voted No although I have been in an Austrian ambulance when I broke my leg skiing out there

Never in the UK thankfully