{"id":10984,"date":"2021-09-03t11:42:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-03t10:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/?page_id=10984"},"modified":"2021-09-03t11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03t10:42:42","slug":"alisons-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/alisons-story\/","title":{"rendered":"alison’s story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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alison, 55, lives in cheshire. she has had eisenmenger syndrome and pulmonary hypertension for all of her life.<\/strong><\/h2>

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\u201ci was at my annual check-up at the spvdu last year when carol came to see me as part of her rounds. when she said she was a physio i didn\u2019t understand why that was relevant to me, as for over 40 years i\u2019d been told you shouldn\u2019t exercise if you have ph or a heart condition.<\/p>

she explained how things have changed, and that was a big surprise to me. coincidentally, i had just started doing a little walking at around the same time \u2013 but only because my train got me to work too early, so i had time to pass each day.<\/p>

carol taught me how i could track my steps via my phone, which helped to set targets and once shielding ended i started walking more around where i live. one day i even managed eight miles. i would never have done that if it wasn\u2019t for that conversation with carol.<\/p>

i never used to walk up gradients, but i know now that it\u2019s ok to get a little puffed. and i always used to drive everywhere, because i thought i shouldn\u2019t walk, but that has all changed now.<\/p>

when i did my last walk test at hospital, i managed 60m further – which might not seem far for some people, but it is for me.<\/p>

if carol hadn\u2019t spoken to me that day, i would still be thinking i couldn\u2019t exercise, as it\u2019s what i\u2019d been told all my life.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

alison, 55, lives in cheshire. she has had eisenmenger syndrome and pulmonary hypertension for all of her life. \u201ci was at my annual check-up at the spvdu last year when carol came to see me as part of her rounds. when she said she was a physio i didn\u2019t understand why that was relevant to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10984","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10984","targethints":{"allow":["get"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10986,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10984\/revisions\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}