This 9-year-old's constant companion is an AED
Feb 27, 2025
Known as @AED__Girl online, third grader Adeline Dinin carries her own AED with her because she has long QT syndrome, an electrical problem with the heart.
Stories From the Heart
This series from ·¬ÇÑÊÓƵ News chronicles the inspiring journeys of heart disease and stroke survivors, caregivers and advocates.
When her son was diagnosed with severe heart problems, she blamed herself. Could she get over it?
Feb 21, 2025
Jamie Dawson went from a devoted sister to a mother facing her child's heart defects. The emotional roller coaster was so jarring that she was diagnosed with PTSD.
When the pandemic closed her mom's nursing home to visitors, she moved in
Feb 18, 2025
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop stayed with her mother in a nursing home during the COVID-19 lockdown. She supported her mother – who had survived a stroke – and other residents, creating a new family.
Could her heartburn, she wondered, be a symptom of a heart attack?
Feb 14, 2025
After a heart attack, Angie Loving wasn't about to be married in the hospital. "I will get married to you," she told her fiancé, "as long as … I can walk down the aisle wearing a wedding gown and shoes." On Leap Day 2020, that's what she did.
During family vacation, 39-year-old mother's heart stopped at a water park
Feb 7, 2025
Thanks to first responders and months of rehabilitation, Tara Yell returned to her kids at home and at school after having a cardiac arrest.
This Girl Scout labeled her dad 'My Hero' on her phone. 11 days after learning CPR, she became his hero.
Jan 31, 2025
Four days after her 11th birthday, Vada Carawan of Virginia Beach, Virginia, had the composure and presence of mind to start CPR when her dad's heart stopped.
She thought she had food poisoning. She was bleeding in her brain.
Jan 29, 2025
From urgent care to eye doctor to the emergency room, Julie Ferris-Tillman finally received a diagnosis of hemorrhagic stroke.
Rare condition caused teen dancer's heart to stop on stage
Jan 23, 2025
Noelle Hunter had a cardiac arrest while performing with her studio's dance team. Recovery wasn't easy but her determination to dance again kept her going.
College pals gathered in a remote cabin. When one went into cardiac arrest, another saved him.
Jan 21, 2025
Athletic Oregonian Tyson Yeck went into cardiac arrest during a guys weekend. His friend did CPR until first responders restored his heart rhythm with an AED.
Teen's face went numb at the start of a calculus exam. Another migraine? No. A stroke.
Jan 15, 2025
During what she thought was a migraine episode, Maddy Ferriter had a stroke due to an undiagnosed heart defect.