At the time, Nevin worked on his farm with his brother, milking and feeding cows each day. <\/p>\n
“It has to be done, it doesn’t matter what is happening, that has to be done every day,” he said. <\/p>\n
Despite experiencing the chest pain, Nevin ate his breakfast and went to work on the farm for five hours. <\/p>\n
He arrived home for lunch at about midday and his wife Lorna, who is a nurse, saw he was still in pain and told him she was taking him to hospital. <\/p>\n
Nevin insisted on driving himself to Causeway Hospital in Coleraine. <\/p>\n
At this point, Nevin said the pain in his chest was “ramping up”. <\/p>\n
Tests were carried out at the hospital and Nevin was informed he was having a heart attack. He was then blue-lighted by ambulance to Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry. <\/p>\n
“It was quite a shock,” Nevin said. He said the news of the heart attack hit him “like a ton of bricks”. <\/p>\n
“I had just come off a working day. Every day previous to that I had no symptoms that were leading up to this that I was ignoring. You’re just coming from total normality and routine to ‘bang’.”<\/p>\n
A heart attack happens when the supply of blood to the heart is suddenly blocked, usually by a blood clot. This is a medical emergency. A lack of blood to the heart may seriously damage the heart muscle and this can be life threatening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the time, Nevin worked on his farm with his brother, milking and feeding cows each day. “It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-696594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115896535222561927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}