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Table 2 Disturbed network

From: Patient experiences of recovery after heart valve replacement: suffering weakness, struggling to resume normality

Meaning units

Significant units

Theme

"If it wasn’t for my husband it would not have gone so well", "Without my wife I could not have returned home so soon", "I bothered my friends with it, so I got a kind of processing, psychologically".

Invaluable relatives

Disturbed network

"I needed someone to talk to about how to do things", "They had my back", "They didn’t want me to come".

Contact with healthcare staff

 

"Nice to start up in a safe and good environment", "It did not fit my working schedule", "Sad it wasn’t offered".

Rehabilitation

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