American Heart Association
Julie Pannell dropped off her kids at school before heading to the YMCA to swim with her friend Hannah as part of their training for a triathlon.
After about 45 minutes in the lap pool, they went to the locker room. Suddenly, Julie felt like she had the wind knocked […]
Just home from grocery shopping, Michelle Johnston pulled her truck into the driveway. As her daughter, Sydney, went to help her take the bags inside, Michelle bent down to give her a hug.
That’s when Michelle collapsed. Her eyes rolled back into her head and she took her last breath.
Michelle’s […]
On perhaps the last night of his life, Brian Curin was told he needed to get some rest for the big day ahead. If he couldn’t drift off to sleep on his own, a nurse would be back soon with medicine to help speed the process.
Brian, however, had something […]
One summer afternoon, 22-year-old Lauren Kornacki arrived home from her job as a lifeguard with hopes of borrowing the family car to go visit her best friend.
The car was in the garage being worked on by her dad, Alec Kornacki. He was trying to fix a brake problem.
When Lauren […]
Robert Epps was working the soundboard at his local church one Sunday morning when he walked up the stairs to the office. This simple activity left the 31-year-old with a terrible pain in his chest that made it hard to breathe.
“It felt like someone had stabbed me with a […]
Tim Weaver was cleaning a boat engine one minute and frantically gasping “Help” the next.
His son-in-law David Andrew was ordering pizza one minute and dialing 9-1-1 the next.
Family and friends around them were wrapping up their Memorial Day weekend on the beach one minute and pulling together to try […]
Rylan Karrer woke up on Easter morning eager to dig into his basket of goodies. After 894 days of waiting on a heart transplant list, the plucky 11-year-old received something far more precious.
The Houston-area family was waiting more than two years for the phone call that finally arrived Sunday […]
Keyota Cole was born with a hole in her heart and an abnormal valve. At 18 months old, she had her first open-heart surgery.
Keyota underwent a second heart surgery at age 5. Then as a teenager and young adult, she had additional procedures, including valve replacement surgery and the […]
It was the Monday before Thanksgiving a few years ago, and Greg Weglowski was on his bicycle.
Greg – a Gulf War veteran who at the time was a special agent for the federal government – knew something was wrong. When he pushed the pedals, “it just felt impossible,” he […]
American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown reviews ‘Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder,’written by Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post. Brown has a weekly column that appears on the popular website.
You’re just about to turn out the light […]
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