Rafael Nenninger took his victory lap around Sharp Allison deRose Rehabilitation Center after spending six months fighting to stay alive.
“I was in the spinning class and suddenly I just lost consciousness," Nenninger said." Fortunately, the instructor knew CPR, so she applied CPR while the paramedics arrived and then I was transported to the hospital.”
He needed a heart transplant. The next four months in the intensive care unit were crippling as he suffered one life-threatening arrhythmia after another.“It's the kind that if you or I were to experience, we would essentially collapse," said his nurse practitioner Mark Verlasky. After Nenninger's heart complications, his kidney failed. His doctors were fighting a steep uphill battle.
“He went through very dire straits, so severe at some points that we were having conversations about end of life with the family," Verlasky said.
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