Dear Hayle SLSC,
My name is Rob Pring and I work at Treliske Hospital as a cardiac physiologist and for the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) who are visiting Penzance next weekend. I’m also the Club Captain of Hayle Pilot Gig Club.
I’m contacting you to let you know that CRY are running a free heart testing session on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th February at Penwith College, St.Claire Street, Penzance and I’d like to invite any of your club’s members who are aged 14-35yrs to come along for 20-30min to have their heart tested. The testing involves having an ECG (painless 5min where stickers are attached to the chest and a printout of the heart’s electrical activity produced), filling in a short questionnaire about health, fitness, symptoms, family history and sports participation before having a brief consultation with a cardiac doctor from St.George’s Hospital, London.
It has been funded by the Pezzack family from Mousehole who unfortunately lost their daughter Debbie to an undiagnosed and possibly treatable cardiac condition. They have raised about £5000 to get CRY to visit Penwith and I am helping them to fill every available slot. It would have been an ECG that would have shown that Debbie had a problem and she would still be here today, as it is the Pezzacks are determined to make sure that the same fate doesn’t occur to another Cornish family. Debbie was a champion pairs rower and is an example that fitness and sports performance isn’t a protector against these inherited conditions.
I would hugely appreciate it if you could forward this email to your club’s members and encourage them to visit either www.c-r-y.org/ecg.htm or www.testmyheart.org and select the day and time that best suits them.
Please feel free to contact me via the email address provided if you have any queries and I hope to see some Hayle SLSC members there … I’ve been bullying the gig club members to attend, and as Club Captain they’ve got no choice!
Many thanks in advance,
Yours,
Rob Pring