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Wales Online
Neil Shaw

'I thought the pain was from food in Marrakesh, then I was rushed to hospital'

A grandmother had a horror holiday experience when she suffered a heart attack - which she had mistaken for bad indigestion. Tina Murphy, 58, was in Marrakesh with her partner John, 54, when she started getting chest and arm pains.

She dismissed it as indigestion but, as the day went on, she realised it wasn't going away. Concerned John, a labourer, asked for help at the hotel reception and a doctor was dispatched - who said Tina needed urgent care.

She was then taken to hospital under blue lights, where she remained for a week while having a procedure and stents fitted. Tina, a community development officer is now well - but says she still worries about another attack. She said: "I have had a fear over the last few years thinking, 'Could today be the day, when I won't be as lucky?'.

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