A typical school run turned out to be anything but for Los Angeles-based psychologist Kristie Holmes, who ended up having a heart attack during her drive.
Holmes, 44, tells Yahoo Lifestyle that she got a pain in her neck while she was securing her daughter into her car seat. “It felt like I slept on my neck wrong, but it was weirder than that,” she says. Holmes says she had a feeling that something was seriously wrong with her health, but couldn’t put her finger on it.
Holmes later learned that her heart was functioning at 10 percent, and she was sent to surgery. There, doctors put five stents into her heart and connected her to an Impella heart pump to help her heart function.
Read the full article: ‘I had a heart attack while driving my kids to school’: How a community came together to help save one mother’s life (Yahoo Lifestyle)
