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Sharell Weeams, a competitive West Coast swing dancer, suffered a heart attack followed by a cardiac arrest on the dance floor in the middle of a swing dance event. Revived…

Experiencing blurred vision and arm weakness for days, Dawn Turnage thought she just needed to go home and rest. A FaceTime call from her sister and niece allowed Dawn’s sister…

On vacation in New York City with her parents, Brittany Williams went into cardiac arrest at a restaurant. Thanks to CPR and an AED, Brittany survived the incident. Today, she…

Jia Wu was deployed in Afghanistan when she experienced several mini-strokes that went undiagnosed. When she returned home, medical technology detected that she had survived multiple smaller strokes and was…

When Shemellar Davis was pregnant with her first son, her blood pressure elevated tremendously. When her son was born, she was diagnosed with postpartum cardiomyopathy. She then tragically lost her…

As self-proclaimed “200-MPH girl,” Erika Livingston did not expect to be diagnosed with a heart attack when she woke up one morning with horrible chest and back pain. Having experienced…