The day my heart stopped – a cardiac arrest survivor’s story

Tiffany Blaner news@greenepublishing.com Every year, more than 350,000 people suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Around 90 percent of those cardiac arrests are fatal. Approximately 200 Americans under the age of 25 die each year from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). I was almost one of them. On July 29, 2023, I woke up, let my dog, Aja, out (and back in again) and said good morning to my mom. Because I had worked late the night before, I went back to bed. About 15 minutes later, Aja