I <3 the British Heart Foundation

Hi I’m Mickey, and I would like to start off by saying thank you for taking time to read my blog. Finding ways to cure and prevent heart disease in the UK is quite a big issue in our day and age. With people eating more unhealthy foods and doing less exercise, there is bound to be an increase in coronary heart disease in Britain. Once you have read my blog I hope that you will feel more aware of what coronary heart disease is and the excellent work of the British heart foundation in overcoming this deadly disease.

This is my Grandad’s story: A few years ago my grandad suffered badly from coronary heart disease, it had come to the point that he had to have a quadruple bi-pass. (When four arteries from your heart are taken out and are replaced by four other arteries from a different part in your body, in my grandad’s case, the arms and chest). This worked and soon my grandad was out of hospital and well, or so we thought. In the next week my grandad suffered from a cardiac arrest in the middle of the night and had to be rushed in to hospital again in a life threatening condition. But thanks to the British Heart Foundation and their amazing research my grandad was saved by some astounding surgeons.

After a period of time when my grandad could barely walk up a hill without having to take medicine, he is now fit and well and is able to do gardening again. It was heart breaking seeing my grandad in this terrible condition, and I want to help stop other families going through a traumatic procedure like this too. My Grandad’s operation was made possible by the public’s donations and the pioneering research funded by the BHF.

• £2 – Helps 10 children get more physically active
• £30 - Heartstart Schools training pack
• £50 – Help fund vital lab work
• £124 – Fund a resuscitation training manikin
• £200 – Help find a cure
• £600 – Fund a Heart Helpline Nurse for a week
• £60,000 – Fund a research project for a year
• £100,000 – Fund a PhD student

Again thank you for reading my blog. If you can, please post a response including your thoughts on my blog. It would be really helpful if you could also leave your answers to the questions below, and maybe consider going and looking at my charity in more detail on their website at www.BHF.org.uk/. If you feel that you could, then please donate to my charity. As the BHF are fighting for every heartbeat.

• Have you heard of the BHF before now?  And did you know that coronary heart disease is the single biggest killer in the UK?
• Do you now feel more informed about coronary heart disease?
• Would you now be willing to do any of the following to help people with heart disease…

1. Make a donation to the British heart foundation?
2. Start or help with a fundraising campaign?
3. Visit and buy from one of their shops?
4. Shop online at the BHF’s eBay store?
5. Tell your family and friends about the BHF and persuade them to help out in any of the ways above?

If you do post a comment then please (if you feel comfortable) tell me where you are from i.e. your town/ city and country. That is if you aren’t from the UK.

Once again thank you for reading my blog!
Mickey.