By John McFarland, Glengormley (Member of NITA)

The Gift of Life

I was a busy Instrument Technician dashing here and there through the whole of Ireland, Isle of Man and parts of Scotland. I didn’t have time to be sick!

Suddenly, on 17th November 1989, while working in Galway I had a heart attack! In the hotel my heart stopped…………………
A cardiac arrest!!

Severe chest pains 3 years earlier had been a warning. I was checked out in hospital at that time, nothing serious found, went home and worried no more about it.

After the Galway episode I had tests which showed scars from a previous heart attack and I had a triple by-pass in April 1991.