Experiencing a life-changing event such as a SCAD, has a huge impact on those who had the SCAD as well as their families and friends. Finding a lack of information about an uncommon and poorly understood condition can be difficult and may add to the strains of recovery. Reading others stories can be an enormous help.
June 15, 2017
Every time I look back on the timeline of my own life story, I see God’s grace, His redemptive power and His protection in my life. I want to honor Jesus because I am still alive and I am well able to witness about Him and His love. I hope that my story will only […]
June 9, 2017
I am a 53 year old wife and mother of two. I don’t drink, smoke or do drugs. I exercise regularly and am in great health, or so I thought. In the late evening of April 23rd, 2017 I was brushing my teeth readying myself for bed when I felt a strong pain across the […]
June 7, 2017
I am a 47 year old female. I have been eating healthy and exercising regular for the past 2.5 years. Lost 30 lbs and feeling good. It was Monday 5/22/17, it was a normal day. Worked all day, went to the gym and did my normal routine, went to get my hair done and then […]
May 30, 2017
My big sister Ali was the life and soul of the party, she had just turned 50 and had acheived her dream of becoming and actress. She had just finished touring with an independant theatre company and met a new man who was a farmer, she was so happy. Ali had just bought a small […]
May 29, 2017
hi I am a 53 year old lady . on may 9 2017 I had a SCAD attack. it just came out of the blue I was was riding my motor bike coming home from supper and all of a sudden all across my chest I had pain and felt like something was stuck all […]
April 26, 2017
It was one month after having my 3rd child with also a 4 and 8 year old. The only reason my husband was home that morning was our 8 year old daughter had a t & a done the previous day. My two girls wanted to go to the yard sales on the block and […]
March 24, 2017
On a bright and sunny Thursday in April 2015, my husband and I were about to head off to Monterey for a weekend of racing cyclocross and visiting with friends. We never would have even considered that about 30 minutes before leaving we would be calling 911 instead and heading off to the hospital. I […]
March 17, 2017
I experienced my S.C.A.D. one month ago today on February the 17th. … a 75 year old fit, active and athletic woman, on the way to the pool with my husband for our three- times -a- week aqua class! We were only two minutes from the local hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada. Within the shortest amount […]
March 13, 2017
Hello, my name is Martha , I am a 30 year old mother of five beautiful babies ages 1 -14 ….. The day started like any other day I felt normal and didn’t feel nothing different until after dinner. I sat down on the couch and within five minutes I started to feel a warmth […]
March 10, 2017
My daughter, Sharon Kay was a 33-year-old wife and mother. She was a RN in school to become a nurse practitioner. On Friday, Feb. 24 at 1:45 a.m. we get a phone call from her husband. He says that KK is being transported by ambulance to the hospital for chest pains. Her Dad and I […]