Over a year has passed

Here I am again after a year and 1 month.
I have had a year of ups and downs but the good news is I have only had the 1 trip to the hospital with chest pain as opposed to 4 or 5 in the previous years. This was put down to a chest infection and or stress in March last year. My angina has definitely improved.

In March my wife Cathy was diagnosed with breast cancer and has had a year of surgery chemo and radiotherapy. She has been brilliant and has been back at work since January on phased return. She has built up to a 4 day week. I was able to help her in her days after a 7 hour operation and can only put my strength down to EECP.

I still have some bad days but these do not last as long as before. I had a bad spell in August but this was helped by a new angina drug Ranexa. I take 500mg twice a day. I was having some bad pain last week and asked could the dose be increased but was told there is a problem with funding for this drug.

My blood pressure has been giving some concern to the doctors but I think if I can get back to some light exercise this will help. It is a bit of a catch 22 situation as although this will help my heart blood pressure and Diabetes it also can bring on a spell of angina.

Although it has been a terrible and trying year for Cathy and myself I can report good things for anybody wanting EECP.