It was my first day back at work after spending two great weeks in Marbella with my wife, it was the first time for over eighteen years we were able to go on holiday without our son, who had now grown up and was old enough to look after himself.
As usual the first day back after a break can be very hectic and I was dashing from one office to another arranging various meetings and so forth, when all of a sudden I was forced to sit down as I found difficulty breathing and a sharp pain in my chest.
It eventually subsided and I was able to resume my work, but at the back of my mind was a fear that something was definitely wrong.
Being of the grand old age of fifty I thought it wise to visit my local doctor and when she told me she suspected a heart problem my world almost fell apart.
Luckily my job came with private medical insurance so within a week an appointment had been made to see a heart specialist and after a meeting with him for twenty minutes an exercise ECG was arranged for the following day.
One week later I was back with the specialist and the news was not good, the ECG had shown some irregularities with my heart and this time an angiagram was arranged.
As I lay in the hospital bed after the angiagram the specialist arrived with the result and once again the news was no better, he diagnosed angina and gave me a prescription for some tablets to ease the problem.
After two more visits to the specialist I was still suffering slightly with mild chest pains and another ECG was arranged plus a blood test to check my cholesterol level.
