Suzanne Calicchio wants to make sure women understand the importance of listening to their bodies and responding to symptoms even if they don't seem dire.
"We went in, we shocked her," Ryan said."We actually had to shock her, it was 33 times. I've been practicing emergency medicine about 35 years now and I can't remember a single other patient who had a shock 33 times and survived. After we worked on her for about an hour and 20 minutes ... We got her stabilized enough ."
"When we shocked her, she came back to a normal rhythm, and her heart was beating and trying to keep going," Ryan said."We saw that. And then when she stopped again, we shocked her again and she'd come back. So I guess she has a strong heart and she was fighting hard. We saw her keep coming back each time, so we kept going."
She said that now, she wants to help people understand the importance of listening to your body and responding to symptoms even if they don't seem dire: If she had ignored her own feelings and if her fiancé hadn't called an ambulance, she would have had the heart attack at home instead of in the emergency room.