Three 10Ks a Week, Then I Couldn't Walk Up the Stairs | Heart Failure Unfiltered

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In the first episode of a three-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with Shannon Nixon of the Yorkshire and Humber Heart Failure Academy and patient educators Corinne Hudson and Katie. Between them, Katie and Corinne were told it was mental health, lifestyle, weight and anxiety. Corinne was testing her own urine, blood pressure and blood sugar at home because she knew something was wrong and nobody would say what. Katie's mum eventually called 111, and the operator sent an ambulance after listening to her try to speak.

They talk about what the one appointment that worked actually did differently, why the waiting between scans was harder than the diagnosis itself, and how the Academy is building on BEAT to get heart failure onto the radar of generalists across Yorkshire and Humber. The cardiologist who saw Katie in A&E told her mum he wasn't sure how she was still standing.

In this episode:

00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers

01:30: Meet Shannon, Corinne and Katie

02:30: Katie's symptoms, and everything they were put down to

05:00: Corinne was running three 10Ks a week

07:00: The one appointment that was different

08:20: The BEAT symptoms she had all along

09:40: Why generalists don't think heart failure first

11:30: The map the Heart Failure Academy created

14:00: What it felt like to finally have an answer

15:40: Marvellous myth buster, does heart failure only affect older adults?

16:40: The waiting, the ICD, and "my rebrand"

20:20: The 111 call Katie's mum made

22:00: Heart failure as the Cinderella syndrome

24:30: BEAT posters in every practice in Yorkshire and Humber

27:00: The booklet, and why knowledge is power

🫀 If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.

The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you.

⚡ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test.

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