Every last drop
Shelly Rowney, 55, Stockton-on-Tees
Feeling my chest rise and fall in time with my laboured breathing. I listened to my consultant speak.
He was drawing a picture of my lungs on a piece of paper.
As he did, he explained that the arteries that should’ve been pumping oxygen and blood around my body were blocked.
‘It’s very serious,’ he said.
He explained it was only a matter of time before the clogged arteries caused my blood pressure to rise.
It would then put pressure on my heart. And that would
