Dad saved by heart transplant loses fiancée to cancer 48 hours before wedding

At the age of 18, Sam Rudland was diagnosed with a serious heart condition called Friedreich’s Ataxia, which causes a thickening of the heart muscle.

She was admitted to a hospice and they decided to scale back their plans and wanted to get married there with a few guests on April 3.Sam, who also has a son, Tobias, 11, from a previous relationship, said: ‘Amy was an incredible mum to Esmee, who is the most precious, amazing little girl.‘It is a very cruel twist of fate that she so badly wanted to be a mum, then had it snatched away.

While symptoms can include balance and coordination difficulties, slurred speech, increased weakness in the legs, vision loss and diabetes, his real problems only began in his late 20s, after starting medication for inflammation of the heart muscle. He said: ‘My heart rate would get to 140bpm, rather than the normal 60 to 100bpm, so I’d regularly end up in hospital.

Sam recalled: ‘We were totally shocked – but convinced the treatment would work. We even discussed having another child when she was better.’ But in November 2017, rushed to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest, it took 10 minutes of CPR to stabilise Sam and, fearing his body was rejecting the donor organ, a balloon was fitted in his heart to prevent valve blockages.

Sam said: ‘I spent Christmas attached to machines keeping me alive, but despite all she was going through, Amy was always there in person – or on the phone.He was released from the hospital in January 2018, but by then Amy’s cancer had spread to her bones. She was still having treatment every three weeks but a year later, they told her that they needed to stop treatment as her white blood cell count was very low.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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