Scots dad suffers heart attack in airport after mistaking chest pain for indigestion

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A Scots dad has told how he mistakenly thought he had indigestion before suffering a major heart attack. Steven Morrison was sitting in the departure lounge at Stornoway Airport with wife Lyndsay when he began to feel hot and sweaty on July 5.The 48-year-old took himself off to the bathroom to wash his face but felt like he had “been hit by a freight train” as the pain took hold.

He managed to make it back to his anxious wife who immediately alerted airport staff and an ambulanc e was called.Fisherman Steven was then flown by air ambulance to the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank where he underwent emergency surgery.

After having two stents fitted into his heart, the dad-of-two is now back home recovering and believes his life was saved thanks to the quick efforts of everyone involved.He said: “I was meant to be going to Glasgow so I could go see Mötley Crüe & Def Leppard, which was a Christmas present from my wife and kids.

But I ended up getting a private flight on the ambulance instead.“When it started, it just felt like indigestion in the middle of my chest and then the pain just started getting worse and worse.