Praise after heart attack shock
After suffering with a pain in his stomach for a number of weeks George Chamberlain was stunned when he was told by doctors that he had been suffering a heart attack.
He has nothing but praise for the staff at University Hospital of Wales who cared for him for a number of weeks and those that helped him get back on his feet.
The Dinas Powys resident admits he wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for the care provided by staff.
Mr Chamberlain explained how he had been suffering with pain for a number of weeks before a doctor sent him to University Hospital Llandough for an echocardiogram.
He said: "Within the course of an hour a young doctor said ‘you’re having a heart attack’ so I was taken by ambulance to UHW, blue lights flashing and everything.
“The paramedics were superb, the nurses were superb. I remember being wheeled through a dark corridor and from then on my memory is a blur. That was the end of November and it was really Christmas that I can remember my wife coming in and I couldn’t speak, I was on all sort of machinery and there was talk of a full body bypass.
“My wife was told that it would take a team of specialist people coming in and they would take every function of my body of me, because I wasn’t responding. They were going to do that. My wife was told don’t build your hopes up because it doesn’t always work.
“And then luckily something happened and I think my stubborn Scouse streak kicked in and I started to respond. I started to slowly improve. I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t swallow, I was a physical mess.”
Mr Chamberlain said he couldn’t fault the staff at UHW who helped care for him and those at other centres who helped with his recovery.
He said: “I’ve no complaints about the care at the Heath.
“I’ve got nothing but praise for them. The surgeon was a superb chap.
“But it would be unfair to pick anybody out and I don’t always know their names – but everybody was super.”
