Lyndsay Morton - living with WPW

I was still informed I was having severe panic attacks and learnt to deal with these symptoms.

On New Year's Day in 2001 I collapsed with a severe chest pain and palpitations of 228 bpm.  I was rushed in to hospital where they had to stop my heart beat and revive me. After several days of very frightening tests I was finally diagnosed as having what was then thought to be a very rare heart condition - WPW.  I was sent home to live "a normal life" on two beta blockers a day.
 
Two days later I was being revived by paramedics in my bed, as again I had turned blue with a heart rate going up to 200-240bpm and had started to fit. That night I was rushed into hospital and operated on within hours to under go the Cardiac Ablation procedure. 

After five hours in surgery and a week in hospital to recover I was informed how lucky I was to have gone through such a traumatic experience.
 
To this day I am grateful to still be here, and even more grateful to have had my daughter after being told that my heart may not be strong enough to go through pregnancy. I do still suffer palpitations and chest pains and continue to undergo tests and wear heart monitors several times a year.