Last summer, Mark Johnson approached a coworker and asked for a ride home. He also asked the friend to drive his truck – and no one drives Mark’s truck but Mark. Obviously, something wasn’t right. Shortly after they left the job site, Mark slumped over in the passenger seat – the result of a massive heart attack. The first hospital the paramedics took him to didn’t perform angioplasties, so he was immediately Air Cared to Dr. Saeb Khoury at University Hospital. Upon arrival, Mark wasn’t even breathing on his own.
When his wife Cindy found out, she rushed over to find him in the care of his “Team of Angels” – the cardiac cath team and critical care nurses at University. After six weeks in their care, Mark recovered to the point that he was completely free of lingering effects.
