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An ICD as created by ChatGPT, not a real one, but similar!

My shock from pacemaker/defibrillator

An ICD (implanted cardioverter defibrillator) as imagined by AI – ChatGPT. In reality they are about 1 3/4inches across inside a smooth metal casing. In the event of a serious

My Cataract Experience

LOOK! NO GLASSES! The cataract operation The eye has to be cut making a very small incision. The cataract clouded natural lens is broken up using ultrasound and then sucked

British Heart Foundation – Why I support it

British Heart Foundation – Why I support it How important is the British Heart foundation? My personal interest in its work I feel profoundly lucky that research and consequent developments

UK Care Crisis deepens – brilliantly explored in BBC programmes with Ed Balls

A care worker in the BBC programme Crisis is not too strong a word to apply to care of the elderly in care homes and those living in their own

Crowded beaches were actually covid safe

Last August (3rd) I wrote a post saying that the dangers of covid had been exaggerated by the media. I especially pointed out that crowded beaches did not lead to

What’s wrong with my heart? A surprising heart problem, my recovery and ICD pacemaker

Anyone who meets me would probably think that I am a very healthy individual. I have felt very well this year and have been very active doing exercise routines most

My Sunburn Experience, July 2020

I should have known better, but I love the sun. I worship the sun. Most summers in the last twenty years I have driven or flown hundreds of miles to

Face masks must be a health hazard as well horrible to wear and of little use

I wore a face mask yesterday when I went to a shop for the first time in five months. It was a horrible experience (but not because it was B

My unexpected experience as a heart patient – Part Two, the Angiogram

What it’s like having an angiogram – actually a very interesting experience I was moved into a cardiac ward and put onto a bed. I had hardly got onto the

My unexpected experience as a heart patient – Part One, a lucky start

I believed I was reasonably fit (February 2019, age 76). After all, for about 10 years I’d been doing a lot of jogging and other exercise. Typically I ran 6

Can too much exercise kill? – How I nearly did too much

I’m now 76 (August 2019). For the last ten years or so I’ve run a little under two miles every other day, and on my off days I’ve enjoyed exercising

Disturbed heart rhythm – risk of sudden cardiac death

If you are in tip-top physical condition and exercising a lot you may be in greater danger than you realise. I thought I was super-fit but one day, at the

The greatest threat to our civilisation today – social distancing

Social Distancing has already trashed our economy and ruined many lives. Thousands of businesses have closed permanently. Tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs. And many people have

Schools are overreacting to the corona virus

Last night I watched the BBC TV 6 0’clock news with an item about a primary school in the north of England. The presenter, Branwen Jeffreys, showed us a school

Closing Norway’s Schools May Have Been a Mistake

Norway’s Prime Minister has second thoughts about closing Norway’s Schools. On Wednesday night, Norway’s prime minister Erna Solberg went on Norwegian television to make a startling admission: she had panicked.

Corona Virus, “The impact on children is minuscule in terms of their health.”

Corona Virus, “The impact on children is minuscule in terms of their health.” – Dr Gavin Morgan. Dr Gavin Morgan, an expert in educational psychology at University College London, said

“Children are at very little risk of infection”

“Children are at very little risk of infection” – Professor Russell Viner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Professor Russell Viner of the UCL Institute of