Sunday, September 25, 2011

‘I looked just like Shrek’ – how snowboarder Mike’s heart almost gave out in the Alps

The active dad was on the piste at an altitude of 2,500m when the heart failure he had unknowingly suffered for 18 months took hold.

Michael, 35, said: “For every three runs everyone else was doing, I could barely manage one on my snowboard, I couldn’t even make it up the lift most of the time.

“At this point I looked like Shrek, I was huge, but my stomach was solid with fluid, all the pains I was getting were my internal organs sending out signals because they were being squeezed.

“I had gone from being able to swim 60 to 80 lengths of a swimming pool in an hour, to nothing.” Read More

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