'I thought: I'm just unlucky, can happen'
''Every day the pediatric nurses came by to rinse the wound. What I liked is that they knew how to put me at ease."
Katinka Blok is in 5HAVO of the Dalton Lyceum in Barendrecht. She is also active in the youth council of the children's phone and likes to meet up with friends. Thus began the new school year in September 2020, no foul mood and full of ambition. But one evening things went wrong. While doing homework, Katinka suffered heart arrhythmia. "I remember shouting: my heart wants out! My father just happened to be out for a bike ride that night. Only my mother and two sisters were home. They fortunately didn't panic, knowing that I might hyperventilate then. It was quite a scary experience. The family doctor immediately sent for an ambulance. I was given medication. Only then did it stop. After three quarters of an hour."