Michael Gibson of Ronkonkoma was coaching at an indoor sports facility in Port Jefferson last February when “everything just went dark”. Mr. Gibson suffered cardiac arrest. “I was clinically dead”, he told reporters and first responders at a recent press conference at South Shore University Hospital (SSUH) in Bay Shore. Fortunately, there were three people…
Philip Vecchio thought it was just a bad case of indigestion. Luckily his wife was concerned enough to call 911 for her husband, who suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol. By the time Terryville Fire Department Paramedics Stephen Loizos and Frank Abbate arrived on January 20, 2022, Mr. Vecchio, 49, was having…
The last thing Jeffrey Forden remembered was having back pains after working out at home. “He got up and went to the couch and immediately went into cardiac arrest and from that moment, he was gone for maybe 20-30 minutes,” said his wife, Linda Sinanian Forden “I called 911 within seconds and they talked me…
Luz Ramirez, a healthy mother of five from Rocky Point, NY, leads an extremely active life. But on the afternoon of June 14, 2021, she was sitting down in her kitchen eating, and out of nowhere she felt a sharp pain in her chest. She knew right away that something was terribly wrong. “I told…