Medical City Healthcare | Take Care | Winter 2019

A life saved— AGAIN AND AGAIN Heart & vascular WHEN THE ALARM ON SHERYL BLAZER’S WEARABLE DEFIBRILLATOR VEST WENT OFF one morning in December, she was home alone on her new farm in Ponder. Her doctor had explained that if the vest alarm sounded when she was awake, she should turn it off so the vest wouldn’t automatically shock her heart. But before she could reset it, she passed out. Sheryl’s LifeVest ® restarted her heart when she was alone on the farm 4