Dido felt dismissed during the pandemic and not able to access cardiac rehab.
Transcript
And I thought there’s something wrong here. But every time I went to approach health practitioners, I was told again it was a pandemic and that I was a 50-year-old woman in a high stress job. The damage that was done to my heart over the year of the pandemic in between the time I was first diagnosed as borderline normal and landing in emergency – enough damage had been done to my heart that it wasn’t likely I was going to recover a whole lot more. And also because I was diagnosed in the pandemic and everything had been shut down, there was no cardiac rehabilitation program.
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