Dido is still waiting for cardiac rehab.
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So, I guess normally the protocol is if you’re diagnosed with heart failure, you have any sort of critical cardiac incident, they want you to get into cardiac rehab ASAP. You get access to the dietitians and the physiotherapist and the cardiac rehab nurses, and you learn about your diagnosis. And you learn about self-care, and you learn about managing the disease, the condition I guess and your medications in a rehab environment with other people who have been similarly diagnosed and that didn’t happen for me. It’s now 2 years after my diagnosis and I still haven’t gone to cardiac rehab.
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