Author: Lene Fogelberg

I zipped through this book in no time at all. Not because it was short, but because I couldn’t put it down. The book reads like a novel but it is the true-life tale of a woman’s battle with a heart condition that isn’t diagnosed until it is almost too late. She was diagnosed with a heart murmur when she was six but her mother was told it was nothing to worry about and they’d never have to have it checked again. All throughout her life the author knew there was something wrong but the doctors in Sweden always told her she was a hypochondriac. When her husband was transferred to the States the American doctors took her symptoms very seriously and she was in the final stages of congenital heart disease.

What was particularly astounding to me was the medical system in Sweden. She wasn’t allowed to pick her own clinic or her own doctor and it seemed like nothing was covered in any insurance plans. At the end of the book she says that new legislation has come into force that changes some of the restrictions she faced.

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