Healthy Cells Magazine | American Heart Association & St. John’s Prairie Heart Institute | Springfield, IL

July 6, 2011

Last week on Friday, I was lucky enough to get to go to St. John’s Prairie Heart Institute in Springfield, IL for Healthy Cells magazine to meet a couple awesome people.

Nancy & Jim are awesome! They are brother-in-law & sister-in-law. This past January was Jim’s 75th birthday, and his family decided to throw him a big party at his church’s gymnasium. Jim’s niece was going to do a comedy bit for his party, so Jim went up to the mic to warm the crowd up. When he finished telling his joke – he collapsed. Jim was having a cardiac arrest.

Luckily, his sister-in-law Nancy was there, along with a few other medical professionals – and they were able to revive him by performing CPR and using an AED. It’s been 6 months now and Jim has almost completely recovered from this episode. It’s a wonderful testament to the importance of knowing how to do CPR and use an AED.

Here’s just a few pics we snapped of the two of them: