Island Heartbeat (Defibrillators)

Who's Tom & Dick

Patrick Mortimer & Martin Weavers

Anxiety, Cancer, Cardiac Arrest, Comedy Interviews, Hospice, Mental Health, Comedy, Stents, Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Depression, Health & Fitness, Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Breast Cancer

5.0 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 52 The boys are back, and this week they're joined by a special guest: Mr. Steve Read, who shares his powerful and deeply personal story of surviving a sudden cardiac arrest. Steve recounts the harrowing experience—from the moment he collapsed on the Isle of Wight to waking up in a cardiac ward on the mainland, having been airlifted for emergency treatment. Following a long and challenging recovery, including struggles with his mental health, Steve found a re...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Who's Tom and Dick, a weekly podcast with your host, Martin Weavers, fighting states for lung cancer, and Patrick Mortimer, living with heart disease.
0:20.6	Why not grab yourself a cup of coffee? Sit back
0:23.2	and enjoy the chatter as we discuss and share information talking about tough subjects and offering help,
0:30.1	support and motivation with a positive mental attitude. Good morning and welcome to who's Tom and
0:35.7	Dick and welcome on this Friday morning.
0:37.9	Good morning, Martin. How are you? Good morning, Patrick. How are you?
0:41.0	I'm very well, thank you. We're joined this morning by another guest, which I'm excited about.
0:46.8	This guest, Stephen Reed, has had a cardiac arrest and has now started an amazing charity providing defibrillators to the Isle of
0:59.2	White. Good morning, Stephen Reed and welcome to Who's Tom and Dick?
1:03.7	Good morning, guys. Lovely to meet you. We can call you Steve, can we?
1:07.8	Yeah, oh yeah, I prefer Steve, yeah, yeah, unless I do something wrong, then it's Stephen,
1:28.0	as my mum says. That's right, yeah. How are you, all right? Yes, yeah, not too bad, thank you. Yeah, still taking the tablets and doing as I'm told, so. John, we all, we almost rattle between us, I should think, with the tablets we have to take. Yeah, I kind of, I kind of think on the NHS's guinea pig when it comes to heart failure pills and that, like, you know, so.
1:36.9	Right.
1:37.5	Yeah, plenty of rattling, plenty of rattling.
1:39.8	Really?
1:40.4	Okay.
1:40.9	We wake up every morning, so that's the main thing.
1:44.2	That's right. Yeah. Welcome to Who's Tom, so that's the main thing. That's right.
1:45.1	Yeah.
1:45.6	Welcome to Who's Tom and Dick, Steve.
1:47.5	And would you please tell us the story from the beginning from when you had your cardiac arrest and how it all paned out for you?
1:54.9	Yes, certainly, yes.
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