20150515 - Heart Attack Survivor

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H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com Lake in the Hills resident and Jamaca native Beth-Sophia Thompson along with her husband Peter, describes on Friday, May 16,2015 how she noticed some similarities between how she felt and the heart attack symptoms doctor described during a women's health event in February. When she returned to the hospital later, doctors told her she was in the middle of a heart attack.

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H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com Lake in the Hills resident and Jamaica native Beth-Sophia Thompson is surprised by Centegra Hospital McHenry director of cardiology Douglas Tomasian in the Cheri Amore Garden of Hope at the facility on Friday, May 15, 2015. Thompson noticed some similarities between how she felt and the heart attack symptoms Tomasian described during a women's health event in February. When she returned to the hospital later, Tomasian told her she was in the middle of a heart attack and performed the operation to implant a stent.