Whether it was intuition or persistence, one could argue it saved Larry Mardock’s life. In June 2015, Larry, then age 60, had been working long days at the commercial/residential paving company he started 28 years ago, and took a quiet Sunday to log some extra hours. “I went to work ...
Bruce Yale’s story of stroke survival reads like a fast-moving script into the future. One minute, he was kneeling in his living room watching family videos with his wife and teenage daughter. The next, he was being rushed on a gurney to a CT scan while a neurologist interfaced with ...
Shea Johnson was a rising star at the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office in 2014. At 40 years old, the lieutenant had nearly 20 years of service under her badge and she was aspiring to promote to chief deputy. She was also unknowingly challenging death. Blood was leaking from a ...
Pat will always be remembered as a "fierce advocate" for whatever cause she believed in. This is one of many things that made Pat Dando such a unique and special person." -Chuck Toeniskoetter, Founding Member of SAF "Some people we encounter in our lives serve to inspire. Truly inspire. ...
It’s cold and dark at 4:30 in the morning. That’s how Brian Yee justified his hand fumbling when he locked the front door of his San Jose home. And the dull headache just meant that he’d be uncomfortable on the boat all day. Brian, 53, and his brother-in-law Greg left ...
People think that only unhealthy people have strokes. That is so not true,” says stroke advocate and survivor Elizabeth Diaz. A fit runner, clean eater, and mother of two young children, Elizabeth was not a conventional candidate for stroke. She didn’t have high blood pressure or high cholesterol. She didn’t ...
It was during breakfast at home when Jeanette Arakawa, 85, started exhibiting signs of stroke. She was trying to ask her husband Kiyo a question, but he heard only gibberish. Kiyo asked Jeanette to repeat herself. The gibberish continued. Her following attempt to write revealed incoherent scrawl. Hearing commotion, ...
