This blog is started to really get out what I have been going through the last two years since my cardiac arrest May 28, 2014. To my friends and family who might read this, I love you and a huge thank you for supporting me through all of this. This is my process of working through this.
Those who don’t know me or the event that lead up to this. I play roller derby and I had decided to start back up after taking time off to move and having my daughter. Now I don’t remember much, I think I went to derby 101 and then went to Phoenix to visit friends (I don’t even really remember the trip). I went to my first actual practice, I am sure I was excited to get back and be with my friends/teammates again. From what I have been told I had the cardiac arrest during the warm-up part of the practice.
From what I have been told when I first went down it looked like I was having a seizure, so the thing to do when someone is having a seizure is to let them do their thing. Well, I wasn’t coming out of it and I was starting to turn blue. So the amazing nurses that I skate with went into action.