This is how England cricketer James Taylor recounts the day his life changed for ever. The day he survived.
It was a pre-season match for his county, Nottinghamshire, at Cambridge University in the first week of April. He’d had no warning. There had been no virus, no signs, no symptoms. Quite the contrary.
“Everyone thinks it was found in a routine heart check which wasn’t the case,” the 26-year-old tells BBC Radio 5 live. “I was feeling good as gold, in fact my lead-up to this season was probably the best I’ve ever felt – mentally and technically.”
By 5pm he was in hospital. He’d remain there for 16 days after being diagnosed with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC).
oh this is just heartbreaking
“When the doctor told me, I was in hysterics at first.
“But then he told me that the majority of these cases are only found out in the post-mortem. I almost stopped crying at that point and felt more lucky that I’m in a position to tell this story now.”
I get panicky when I see people saying F1 is boring, cos I feel like if Bernie sees it he’ll take it as a green light for his fuckin’ reverse grids and success ballast and idek firing the leading driver out of a cannon before every race or whatever crackpot scheme he can come up with. It’s not like he wants to fix the actual problems with F1, so he’ll just use anything as an excuse to improve “the show”! In any case, the first three races of the season were really good, and every racing series has dull races – it’s just their promoters aren’t insane old men who want to tinker with everything except what they should ¬_¬
I hate when there’s absolutely nothing you can do but just wait, and stew, and worry. Damn bank holidays, can’t even ring anyone to bother them about it
When a good new author starts writing f1 fic they NEVER WRITE ROLIPE whyyyyy come on!!!
I posted a fic, but it’s not very good so don’t feel you have to read it/kudos it. I started it then kind of forgot where I was going with it, if I ever knew.
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