After intensive investigations, she was diagnosed with an intermittent complete AV block, which means there was “no electricity flowing from the upper to the lower chambers” of her heart, necessitating a pacemaker. “When I was first diagnosed, I thought that my life was over. I was so scared and angry. I was fainting so frequently during the day that I had reached the point that I couldn’t leave my bedroom and go to the bathroom without having to ask a parent to accompany me, just in case I fell in the corridor,” she said in an interview with PA Real Life.