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For the third night in a row, Mike Dempsey felt awful. He was uncomfortable and experiencing chest pain. He remembered what his children always said to do when he had a question: “Just Google it, Dad.” Mike logged onto his computer, went to Google and typed in “heart attack.” He didn’t like what he read. “I thought, ‘oh, I’m spooking myself,’ ” he said. But when the pain radiated all the way down his arm, he knew he couldn’t blame it on his occasional acid reflux. He called out to … Continue reading →

Jeff Finch had the classic symptoms of a heart attack. “I was in the kitchen and both my arms went numb and I started sweating real bad,” he says. What he did next was something doctors see far too often. Jeff went out in the garage to cool off. A few minutes later, when the symptoms didn’t go away, Jeff knew he was having a heart attack. He had his wife drive him to Alegent Health Immanuel Medical Center. “I was scared,” he recalled. At 49, with no history of … Continue reading →

Terry Tilson talks about the day he almost died like it was another item on his daily planner. It was his 53rd birthday. He had just wrapped up a meeting at Plattsmouth City Hall. “I got home and wasn’t feeling too hot that evening,” he says. Boy was that an understatement. Terry had what he thought was a bad case of heartburn. When he added a second symptom to the mix, excessive sweating, there was no denying he was having what some commonly refer to as the big one. Lucky … Continue reading →