About 2 years ago while in hospital for a Morphine pump replacement I suffered a major overdose and they told me that I was lucky that the nurse walked in my room and found me unconscious. Anyway when my wife picked me up and got me home I spent about a week in bed and consequentally did not notice that wife was not well. When I finally saw how unwell she was (7 days later) I took her to our GP who did an ECG and deduced that the Heart was OK and he increased her Reflux medication. Two days later my wife had severe pains and  was saturated with perspiration even though she was sitting down doing nothing. I immediately called the ambulance and they arrived in 25 minutes, by this time my wife was still clammy, but not wet. They did another ECG and again said the same as the Dr. and were not going to take her to hospital, but after a ten minute argument with me they reluctantly took her. By time I drove to the hospital (as they told me to go to collect her once it was proven to be only Reflux). By time I got there, everyone was in a panic as she had suffered a total blockage and they were transferring her to Fremantle Hosp., where they arranged for the Catheter lab to be on standby. By time I arrived she had had 2 stents put in one Artery and said there were another 3 blockages above 80% that had to be done, but because the Heart had been so stressed, they would need to allow it to rest for about 4 weeks, at which time they went in again and stented the other 3 blockages. My wife was of a healthy weight and we ate a low fat diet, had never smoked (neither has I) or drank alcohol, but her Father had Heart disease, which we informed all parties. We were told that if she had of had the Attack (that she had in hospital) at home, there was a very real chance that she would not have survived. I don't know what else we could have done, but I do know that had I not insisted on her being taken to hospital and let the ambulance go, she may not be still with me.

Regards Bob Brown