The estimated 2,700 people living with heart failure in Louth are being urged to embrace a wide range of supports to help them manage the chronic condition. The.
Over 2,700 people living with heart failure in County Wexford
Over 2,700 people are living with heart failure in County Wexford.
That’s according to the Irish Heart Foundation who are encouraging patients to embrace a wide range of supports to help manage the chronic condition.
This is Heart Failure Awareness Week and service users are being reminded that you can live with heart failure and supports can help to put it into remission.
Lucinda McNerney is the Patient Services Development Manager at the Foundation and told South East Radio there are a number of services available to those looking for help.
I am a 58-year-old woman living in Foxford, Co Mayo, and, five years ago, I started my journey with heart failure.
I have been very scared in recent months as I know that if I contracted Covid-19, the outcome would be catastrophic. I have already been in intensive care since the start of the pandemic with my heart failure â I was on a ventilator and dialysis and my family were told to prepare for the worst.
Thankfully, the skills of the staff at Mayo General Hospital intensive care unit, and God, saved me to fight another day.
It was a normal Monday morning in June 2016 when I got up to go to work â I was a nurse based in St Maryâs hospital, Castlebar. I had been feeling a little unwell over the weekend. I took two paracetamols and went to work. I found it very difficult walking up the stairs, was feeling breathless and light-headed and felt muscle-type pains in my arms and across my shoulder blade. I thought it was the onset of flu. I continued to go to work fo
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A mother-of-three living with heart failure has described her condition as an “invisible disability” and urged others to seek support.
Karen MacLaughlin, 57, is one of an estimated 90,000 patients living with the chronic illness.
She said the condition transformed her into a frail, fragile version of herself when she was diagnosed in January last year.
Monday marks the start of Heart Failure Awareness Week and experts want patients to embrace free Irish Heart Foundation help, without which, Ms McLaughlin insists, she would not have coped.