- I saw bright lights.
- She just always seemed so young.
- Like rainbows flashing at me.
- Something can be taken out of your life so quick.
- It looked like I was seeing a white tunnel.
- Never in a million years would I think
that she'd be someone that would have a heart attack.
- It can happen to anybody at any time.
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- I'm Jodi Dobbs, and I'm a survivor.
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- Megan had an opportunity
to play volleyball, so we went
on a recruiting visit;
Mike, my husband, and Megan and I.
The college was Southern Illinois,
which is about eight to nine hours.
So, it's a long trip.
We were driving along and we went by this hospital.
And the hospital stood out to me.
- She made a comment that, "Hey, nice hospital.
"If you ever got hurt, you're in good hands here."
- [Jodi] So we drove around the town.
I felt like I had indigestion.
The indigestion turned more into a contraction,
and as I sat in the car, then my chest
started getting heavy.
- And now she's holding onto the door handle in the car.
- And I actually was trying to breathe
through my contractions.
I was like, "Oh, I can handle this."
I can breathe and slow it down,
and it was not working.
I felt like there was an elephant
sitting on my chest, and I said,
"We need to go to the emergency room.
"Something's not right."
We ended up going back to that
same exact hospital we just drove by.
- We pull into the ER.
- The administration gal was asking,
"Okay, what's your name?
"Where are you from?"
But a nurse happened to walk by and
she says, "No, she's having a heart attack.
"She needs to be in there hooked up,
"we need to get her some drugs now."
- We didn't think it was a full fledged
heart attack, by any means.
Those weren't the symptoms.
She wasn't having pain down the arm.
- [Jodi] I said, "Well, I can't have
"a heart attack."
I was 50. I have no symptoms, I'm healthy.
Other than going through the 50-year old
I call it mentalpause, but it's menopause.
- Jodi was wanting to not miss
her daughter's recruiting trip, and
she wanted to be part of that.
- But, my husband and the doctor,
thank goodness, told me, "No, you're staying."
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- My dad texted me and he said,
"Call me as soon as you get this, it's important."
- I was constantly on the phone, calling her,
giving her updates, texting her, "Mom's
in the Cath Lab."
- I stopped him right there, and I said,
because I work in the medical field,
and I said, "Dad, I know what that means,
and I know it's not good."
And he just told me that everything's going
to be okay, and that he would
keep me updated throughout the day.
- The day went on, and it was probably
about 2:30, 3:00.
The rehab nurse came in.
She's like, "Jodi, you know you're very lucky."
I said, "I know, I'm so lucky."
But then, I saw bright lights.
I saw rainbows flashing at me.
It looked like I was seeing a white tunnel.
And I started shaking and I said,
"Something is not right, something is very wrong."
- In rolls our doctor.
He comes running in, and they rush her down
to the Cath Lab.
I'm walking alongside the bed.
We get to the elevator to go down to the Cath Lab.
The door's opening up.
The nurse looks at me and says,
"You need to give your wife a kiss
and tell her you love her."
So, I knew it was serious.
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- The sad thing is, that most
women out there feel they're healthy.
And they're superwomen.
And we are; all of us are.
But, sometimes we don't take that time
to take care of ourselves.
Like myself, I was always healthy.
My dad did pass away when he was 39,
but I never thought of it as having
a hereditary heart disease.
Of course, that was back in 1985, so who knows?
The technology in the medical field
changes every minute, the new things that they find.
A lot of that is from the funding that we give them
for the research that they do.
Now that this touched me so close to home,
I feel it's important that people are aware.
I don't think we realize, as women, that
a heart attack is your number one killer.
- Just the things that the
American Heart Association does through
community awareness, national awareness,
I think it's huge, and I think people
need to take it seriously, because you never know.
It could be your wife, your daughter,
any family member or your best friend.
It could happen to anybody.
- [Jodi] So, because of the American Heart Association,
and the education and the research
that they provide, I'm able to experience life
with my daughters, my wonderful husband,
and get to see them grow into young women
and educate them and they can create awareness
for others on our experience that we went through.
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