A fit and healthy mum received a heartbreaking diagnosis after she collapsed at home following months of intense chest pain. Sophie Elliot from Derbyshire was experiencing 'the worst chest pain ever' when she passed out and was rushed to hospital.
She was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome which happens when there is an extra electrical connection in the heart which causes it to beat abnormally fast. Sophie was unable to drive for three years or even toast to her 21st birthday as she wasn't allowed alcohol, the Mirror reports.
After years of restrictions on her lifestyle, the inspiring mum-of-two now plans to run the London Marathon which she hopes to complete in under four hours and 30 minutes. She told MEN: "I had three years of being quite strict and losing out on a lot of what I felt as a 21-year-old I should be doing because I had to be so careful as they weren’t sure how bad things could get."
