Heart Care Patient Stories
Tony, open heart surgery
Police captain Tony Buchanan was a week away from undergoing physical training when he decided to have the CT calcium scan. Even though he wasn’t experiencing any symptoms, his score was 5,494 – anything over 400 means bad news. Thanks to the calcium scoring test, three blockages were found just in time.
Shelia, cardiac patient
Shelia lost her father and brother to heart disease. Her younger brother is fighting heart disease now. At age 60, Shelia's family heart history came home to her. A cardiac catheterization discovered two of her arteries were almost completely blocked. Since then, she's fought a continual battle with heart disease...
Read more about how Shelia's cardiac care team keeps her living her best life.
Jannie, heart attack survivor
Taking an art class her daughter teaches, the excitement of her son’s new house, spending time with her pride and joy, grandson Ian – Jannie almost missed these special times. The “gas pain” in her chest turned out to be something much worse…
Greg, heart attack survivor
In the fall of 2016, Greg was juggling a job as an MRI technician at Johnston Memorial Hospital and transporting his three stepchildren to various sporting events, when he suffered his first heart attack…
Linda, open heart surgery
Her doctors had been monitoring the blockage in her heart since she suffered a heart attack four years earlier at the at age of 44. Unlike her previous blockage, this one couldn’t be stented because of where it was located…
Vic, open heart surgery
Vic was determined not to let a family history of diabetes and heart disease catch up with him. He stayed ahead of it by cycling and hiking in the woods, but a calcium screening of his heart revealed he had several blockages…