Union man ... Mark Serwotka heads the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), the UK's biggest civil service union. Picture: Twitter Source: Supplied
A BRITISH union leader has revealed how a mysterious virus left him with no pulse and reliant on a machine to pump blood around his body.
Mark Serwotka, who heads the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), the UK's biggest civil service union, contracted the virus in 2010 after walking his dog.
The black Labrador rolled in something disgusting and after cleaning the dog Serwotka discovered the next day that his entire body had swollen up, he told the Guardian in an interview.
A week later his heart rate went out of control, rising to 220 beats a minute, and he was rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack.
Instead doctors discovered that the virus had attacked his internal organs including his heart.
Pretty soon his heart muscle became too weak to pump blood around his body and he was put on a pacemaker. When his condition worsened he was fitted with a ventricular assist device (Vad), which pumps blood around his body.
The pump is next to his left heart ventricle and powered by batteries that he wears in a bumbag and which are connected to the device via a cable that goes in to his body through a hole in his stomach. The device beeps every six hours when the batteries need changing.
He told the paper that the condition has left him with no pulse, adding that carrying the battery-pack around everywhere he goes was "a pain in the arse".
He said: "When I'm watching telly, I plug myself into the mains to charge the batteries. When I'm driving, I use the cigarette lighter."
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