22-Year-Old Fitness Coach Suffers Sudden ‘Widow Maker’ Heart Attack
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A 22-year-old fitness coach is lucky to be alive after she was suddenly struck by a deadly “widow maker” heart attack while she was driving.
Faith Harrison was suddenly struck by strange tingly sensations in her arms while driving back from a hockey match earlier this year.
She said the “pins and needles” were so severe she had to quickly swerve off the road.
“My left arm fell completely numb but at the same time I had pins and needles spread down my right arm,” recalls Harrison from Shropshire, England.
As she brought the car to a halt in a layby, Harrison’s condition quickly took a turn for the worse.
“I developed a crushing tightness in my chest and that’s when a feeling of dark, impending doom suddenly came over me that seemed to say: ‘You’re going to die.’”
She spent a few minutes catching her breath and rubbing at her numb arms before deciding to continue with her drive to her parents’ house, which was closer than her own home.
The young healthy woman, who was in peak physical condition, had no idea that the pins and needles in her arms were the first sign that she was having a heart attack.
Faith, who has always kept herself healthy, then developed a “crushing tightness” in her chest
“I couldn’t work out what was going on, there was no obvious reason for me to feel this bad,” she says.
And when she did later learn what the problem was, the diagnosis left her reeling.
Despite her youth and fitness, Harrison, who was a semi-professional athlete at the time, was, in fact, having a heart attack.
It wasn’t just a minor heart attack, however.