"Just a heart-beat away..." (Adlai Stevenson: New York Times)
Created | Updated Apr 26, 2002
In September 1990, at the age of 36, I suffered a heart attack, followed by two more, resulting in heart surgery in January 1993. In 1995, my heart condition deteriorated further and reluctantly, I had to retire from my work in the NHS in December of that year.
This was the point I realised that maybe, despite having to retire, I could earn money from writing.
I eventually came to write for a whole range of UK leisure magazines. By September 1998, I had filled over 200 pages of various periodical publications. In November last year, one of my articles was seen by over one million readers.
In September last year (1998), my health suffered another setback. Three of the four grafts performed in the 1993 heart by-pass began to fail.
I spent a few months suffering difficult side effects as I was tried on different cocktails of drugs to stabilise my symptoms. The Royal Brompton Hospital made a detailed study of arteries they could use from elsewhere in my body, and found some good ones. At the time of writing, I am waiting for the operation scheduled for mid-May, so watch this space. The prognosis they say, is excellent.
It has always been my ambition to work in television. So as I await and later recover from my heart surgery, I'm working on a number of TV projects.
For more information on me, visit my website at http://www.richardhill.co.uk or my personal website at http://www.newsplus.enta.net
You might also find my 'Virtual Museum of the Iron Lung' interesting. It's at http://members.xoom.com/lungmuseum
This was the point I realised that maybe, despite having to retire, I could earn money from writing.
I eventually came to write for a whole range of UK leisure magazines. By September 1998, I had filled over 200 pages of various periodical publications. In November last year, one of my articles was seen by over one million readers.
In September last year (1998), my health suffered another setback. Three of the four grafts performed in the 1993 heart by-pass began to fail.
I spent a few months suffering difficult side effects as I was tried on different cocktails of drugs to stabilise my symptoms. The Royal Brompton Hospital made a detailed study of arteries they could use from elsewhere in my body, and found some good ones. At the time of writing, I am waiting for the operation scheduled for mid-May, so watch this space. The prognosis they say, is excellent.
It has always been my ambition to work in television. So as I await and later recover from my heart surgery, I'm working on a number of TV projects.
For more information on me, visit my website at http://www.richardhill.co.uk or my personal website at http://www.newsplus.enta.net
You might also find my 'Virtual Museum of the Iron Lung' interesting. It's at http://members.xoom.com/lungmuseum
