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.
January 9, 2016
I was/am an elite ultra distance runner. I was 25 miles into a 30 mile trail race running well until I felt totally exhausted instantly and staggered across a road and lay down on the pavement. I just felt I wanted to sleep. After about 15-30 minutes a race volunteer lay me across their backseat […]
January 6, 2016
I am a 36 year old mother of 3 beautiful children! I have two girls and then in April of 2014 was blessed again with a baby boy this time. When he was three weeks old one evening i started having what seemed like at the time most likely indigestion – i had eaten spicy […]
Fall, it is my favorite time of year. You can be outside in the sunshine at noon but by 5 you can curl up with a blanket near a fire. The leaves have a color that I’d so hard to describe but yet I can remember everyone. So, that day, that beautiful fall day October 11, […]
December 28, 2015
OK so my story begins with Ehlers Danlos diagnosis at 18 after 3 knee surgeries. 20 years later I find I need my pelvis broken to bits and rebuilt. (PAO) After that I had 4 revision. All within the last two years I had those surgeries, got a lupus, Sjogrens and gastroparesis diagnosis. And Feb […]
December 27, 2015
A recent survivor, I am an elite athlete, with good health, and I collapsed at the end of a gruelling track session, was checking out until my coachs quick thinking(She is also a respected nurse) saved me, she administered cpr and brought me around, However I remember nothing of the next 12 or so hours, […]
December 14, 2015
December 6th, 2015 I woke at 7:30am feeling a little unrested, but awake. Within seconds my left arm started aching like I needed to stretch or reposition. Neither was relieving the ache, so I got up. I walked down stairs to feed the dog and the aching got worse and was creeping to my over […]
It was Father’s Day 2012 and my husband was getting ready to head out for a day of golf with our son. I decided to stay home and enjoy my time alone. In the process of fixing my bed and picking up, I realized I was having mild chest pain and I was feeling some […]
December 3, 2015
I’m sixty years old, active,working and on my own. My husband died 11 years ago of a heart attack due to blocked arteries, I had watched him deteriorat over the years and was determined this wasn’t going to happen to me. I watched my diet, I love walking my dogs and being in the fresh […]
I suffered my first heart attack at the age of 39. I was a physically fit, exercised regularly, ate healthy, and was considered in excellent health. On my first trip to the ER, I was diagnosed with reflux and sent home with reflux medicines. Two days later, while sitting at the dining room table, I […]
November 20, 2015
I do not fit in any of the categories for SCAD. I am a 52 year old Menopausal woman who had not just one SCAD event but two. According to my Cardiologist I was suppose to die and all I can say is Praise Jesus I am still here to share my story. I was […]