- I didn't realize heart disease could affect anyone,
even people like my mom who appeared healthy
and who, once upon a time, was a nurse.
- I never thought that I would sit here today
and be able to say that I'm the mother of a stroke survivor.
- I didn't realize heart disease
could affect the strongest person in my life.
- I did not realize that someone
that I, who appeared healthy, ate well,
has made exercise a part of her life
could have underlying heart disease.
- I didn't realize at age 14
that I could suffer a massive stroke.
- I didn't realize that it could happen to someone I knew.
- I was noticing being out of breath.
On a few occasions I had jaw pain after exertion,
and I purposely avoided wanting to know more about it.
I hope whoever is hearing this will be wiser than I
and pay attention to those symptoms
because I put myself in danger.
We had this phenomenal family trip.
- We were at Yellowstone and we were walking
down a really step set of stairs.
On the way down she got slightly out of breath but was okay,
so I helped her down, stayed back with her,
and she had to keep stopping with shortness of breath.
- We came home and eventually
the light bulb went off big time,
and I looked up symptoms of jaw pain.
And then I learned that it was a form of angina
and called the doctor.
- I got a call from my dad, I was expecting my mom
to come and watch the girls,
and he called and said, "Mom's going to the hospital,"
and I couldn't believe it.
She had had a stress test and had failed.
As a result of that she was rushed to the hospital
and I was immediately on notice
that something was wrong with my mom's heart.
- I was fearful and concerned and
didn't really want to show those feelings
to Donna at that point, I just wanted
to reassure that it was gonna be okay,
everything's gonna be good,
we'll get to the hospital, we'll go from there.
- I was scared, I was worried, I was frightened,
and I also knew I wanted to stay calm
because I was in the presence of my daughters
and I wanted to assure them it was gonna be okay.
- I could hear her on the phone,
and she was like something's wrong with mom,
and I immediately started freaking out.
I was like, "Mom, what happened?"
- The first question from my youngest daughter
was is she gonna die.
And you know, I looked right at her and said,
"Caroline, I don't think so but I hope not.
"And I will go and find out, and you stay here
"and let's say some prayers."
- When I was 14, we found out that I had a stroke.
I came home and I just walked into my house
and my brother said to me, "How was the English MCAS?"
because that day we were taking the test,
and right then and there, the loudest noise possible
just hit me, worse than a headache,
worse than a migraine, then I just fell over.
- I was out of the house,
got a phone call from Christina's brother
who was here with her and told me
there was something drastically wrong with Christina.
She wasn't able to walk, her balance was off.
I'm a registered nurse and the furthest thing from my mind,
at 13 years of age, was that she had experienced a stroke.
- I was up in my room and I was throwing up.
I ended up finding myself in the bathroom,
but I don't remember how I got there.
At that moment, no exaggeration, I thought I was dying.
I couldn't communicate a sentence,
I couldn't sit up, I couldn't walk,
I literally did not know what was going on with me.
That's what was so scary was that I was just laying
on my bathroom floor, leaning over to throw up,
and I just kept telling everyone
I knew something was wrong with me
but nobody was believing me because of my age.
- So at that point I came home,
found Christina, to me neurologically not to be
in her right frame of mind.
- My mom rushed home.
They ended up bringing me to the hospital.
They're carrying me like a baby into Milton Hospital,
and we walked into the emergency room and said
we need a doctor, somebody help my daughter.
- They got a little concerned in the emergency room
which then of course, frightened me
because if the emergency room doctors
don't know what's going on
with your child there's a problem.
And the next statement from the team
at the local hospital was that
we need to get her in to Boston right away,
and by the ambulance.
- After doing more and more tests
I went through probably every single department
in that place, and finally a neurologist came down
and he just took one look at me and saw my eye,
and my eye was extremely drooped, my right eye.
- And it wasn't until the morning after
when the team of about 15 doctors,
they walked in and they said, you know,
we're here to tell you ...
- That she had a stroke.
And Kate had called me and said
essentially that if the clot moves she could die.
- I went for a run in Florida last April.
I hadn't been running for about six months
because I had a bad knee and I got this
incredible, take your breath away pain.
I stopped and just attributed it to me being
in terrible shape and didn't think twice about it.
Came home and about a month later
I was lifting some of my decorating samples
and the pain came back, and it came back the next day
and the next day, so within that we I went to the doctor.
They immediately thought that I had a heartburn problem.
So they gave me a prescription for heartburn
and a bottle of Tums and off I went,
but unfortunately the pain didn't go away.
- One day me and my mom went for a walk
just to get some exercise, and we were literally walking
maybe a couple blocks and she had this pain
that was literally so strong
that she was incapacitated by it.
- I said, "Just, I can't even walk another block.
"It hurts too much."
- She's a healthy woman,
she's in better shape than me for sure,
and when I saw her that debilitated by this pain
I knew that there was something up.
So I just looked at her and said,
"Mom, that's not heartburn,
"you need to go back to the doctor."
- And when I did, they did an EKG
and immediately noticed an abnormality
and wanted to send me immediately for a stress test.
He thought I was gonna be fine,
but the minute he put me on the treadmill
I failed the stress test miserably,
and he could see that I had an artery
that was very severely blocked.
- My mom got great care and she ultimately had
two stents put into her heart.
I'm so thankful my mom is alive,
I'm so thankful my mom is well,
and this is something that I think touched so many of us.
The more that we can talk about it
and the more that we can make it real,
the more opportunity we have to solve it.
- The American Heart Association
was part of my intervention.
They have funded research for many things,
one of which were the stents that I received
that allow me to have arteries that are working properly.
- When I was told that I had a stroke,
I then decided that the stroke wasn't going to win,
but Christina was.
I wasn't going to let the stroke defeat me.
What I want people to take away from my story
is that a stroke can happen to anyone
and that you should really know the signs and symptoms
so you can get help as soon as possible.
- I'm very thankful for the American Heart Association.
Without the American Heart Association
and what they've given to Christina,
none of us would be here today.
Every dollar that's donated, it helps save lives.
- I think the American Heart Association
is so important because its advances in research
have enabled people like myself
who have blockages to not have to have a major surgery.
That wouldn't happen without all the research
the American Heart Association has funded.
I think Go Red For Women is such an important cause
because there are so many women like myself
who don't have the awareness that they should have.
- I want to say today thank you,
thank you for being here, thank you for making the time
to be here, thank you also for your contribution.
I can't, we can't make the world different
around heart disease without your help.
Thank you for taking that opportunity today.
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