A 22-year-old woman from Eglinton, County Londonderry, says she is lucky to be alive after suffering 11 cardiac arrests over seven days
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The 22-year-old from Eglinton, County Londonderry, who has no family history of heart conditions, was told she may have caught a virus resulting in inflammation and excess fluid around her heart.'Get there quick' Ms Boyle said she was forever thankful that one of Aoife's friends, Aideen McGuiness, was a trained nurse.Aoife was taken to Altnagelvin Hospital where she had more cardiac arrests.
"It was only when I got to Newcastle and I started on different medications," she said. "I would have my good and bad days, but then reality slowly started to hit.
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