A mother of one has described fearing she would die after suffering a heart attack aged 37 during the UK’s first coronavirus lockdown.
Lee Anne Porteous, from Glasgow, believed she was fit and healthy before she started feeling unwell while on a dog walk in May last year.
The Barclays bank worker said she had no idea what was happening when her mouth area began hurting, and thought she was suffering from “toothache”.
“I started getting jaw pain but I didn’t think much of it. I thought I might need to go to the dentist but we’d just gone into lockdown,” Ms Porteous said.
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“I started getting jaw pain but I didn’t think much of it. I thought I might need to go to the dentist but we’d just gone into lockdown,” Ms Porteous said.
“I was feeling pretty lousy so I thought I’d have an early night. Then I woke up about 1am and the pain from my mouth had actually spread into my chest.
“I felt sick and my stomach was hurting. I felt clammy and then I got pins and needles down my arm.
“Eventually I got my husband to call NHS 24 for some advice and as soon as I told the lady my symptoms she said she was going to get an ambulance.”
Anne Porteous shares her perspective on forced adoptions, and
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âThe most important factor in preventing the removal of children to care was early intervention.â Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
âThe most important factor in preventing the removal of children to care was early intervention.â Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
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I read Nina Lopezâs letter (1 June) on adoption with sadness, both because of the example she gave and also because she doesnât tell the whole story around adoption today. âForcedâ is an emotive term and that applies appropriately to those adoptions of the 1960s and 1970s. That 90% of adoptions are forced â ie court ordered â is not surprising, given that few children are relinquished (or given up) for adoption these days. Fortunately, parents are not forced to give up their children because they are born out of wedlock. They might be forced if the child in question is being harmed, or likely to be harmed and cannot be placed within the family. Practice has undoubtedly changed since the 1960s, thank goodness. It has evolved to protect children, not to make discriminatory and unfair judgments on parents.
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Lee Anne Porteous is determined to enjoy the best Christmas ever after she survived the frightening cardiac event earlier this year.
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