JOHNSTON CITY, Ill. (KFVS) - Two women successful confederate Ill. stock a peculiar bond. They are co-workers astatine Johnston City schools, but a shared aesculapian acquisition is what truly brought them together.
Third people teacher Melanie Emery said she was truly successful daze whenever they said that she was having a bosom attack.
Until a twelvemonth ago, Emery had nary wellness issues. Then successful February of 2022, she started complaining of what she thought was acerb reflux, heartburn oregon anxiety. In world she suffered a bosom attack.
“I was truthful amazed and anybody that knows maine knows that I cry, panic, freak retired and I was conscionable cool, calm, making jokes,” said Emery. “So decidedly God was with maine past due to the fact that I would not person been acting similar that I would person been falling apart.”
But Emery isn’t the lone Johnston City schoolhouse worker to endure from a bosom onslaught successful 2022.
Johnston City School District Secretary Beth Roberts said she was having occupation walking the trash tin backmost up the elevation by her house. She said it is not a large elevation but she inactive had occupation breathing erstwhile walking up it.
That complication prompted Roberts to spot a doctor. She would extremity up having bypass surgery.
“I went successful there, I was successful country for astir 7 hours possibly 6 hours,” said Roberts. “And they kept telling my kids that I was doing good and I came retired of country had a small occupation waking up and aft I woke up I was good.”
Now Emery and Roberts person a peculiar bond.
“We support successful interaction with each other,” Emery said. “She works present astatine Washington and I enactment retired astatine Lincoln, but we’re ever encouraging each different to get retired and workout to devour healthier, you cognize we person that enslaved that we, origin we some suffered this.”
Both Emery and Roberts said if you are feeling immoderate benignant of symptom you should get it examined.
“I truly privation radical to recognize that if they person a pain, if they deliberation something’s wrong, to marque definite that they get it checked out,” Roberts said. “It’s precise important origin if you get it checked retired it mightiness not beryllium thing but it mightiness mean you request a stint, it mightiness mean you request bypass surgery.”
February is American Heart Month and this Friday is National Wear Red Day, which some bring attraction to bosom illness among women.
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