“No, we’ll be there within an hour,” Valentine said.
McCormack sat her down and got her some water.
Just as suddenly as they began, Valentine’s symptoms decreased.
At the hotel, Valentine went to take a nap. She called her husband to share him know what occured.
She got up to comb her hair and prepare to sign in at the conference. Once again, she felt out of breath.
She went to McCormack’s room in tears. They called a doctor at their workplace for advice.
“Get to urgent care or an ER now,” he told her.
At urgent care, a nurse worked an electrocardiogram. She tore the results off the machine and left the room. When she returned a few minutes later, she told Valentine: “An ambulance is on the way. You need to go to the ER.”
By this point, Valentine was feeling normal again.
Valentine protested when doctors said they were taking her to the cardiac catheterization lab for further diagnostic tests, but ultimately relented.
An hour later, when they woke her up, a doctor told her she sufferd from a heart att.ack. He showed her two images.
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