![Not Your Average Heart Attack](https://riverview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/John_and_Sharon-194x120.jpg)
Not Your Average Heart Attack
As owners of a small farm in eastern Indiana, John and Sharon Marcotte are no strangers to hard work. Growing crops and raising cattle and other animals made them completely self-sufficient for many years. However, in the last couple of years, they cut back and slowed down as Sharon fought and survived breast cancer in […]
![A Living Miracle](https://riverview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Laurie_Coppess_1-194x120.jpg)
A Living Miracle
Laurie Coppess shouldn’t be alive, she says. After battling breast cancer and recovering from a stroke more than a decade ago, she thought her health problems were behind her. But in early August last year, she was alone at a friend’s house when she started feeling symptoms of what she thought might be a heat […]
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Another Shot at Life
Standing atop the bleachers in the Tipton High School gymnasium, Randy Bagley gazes down the steps and grins as he breathes a sigh of triumph. A few years ago, something as simple as climbing stairs without running out of breath would have felt close to impossible for Randy. In fact, he nearly had coaches call […]
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Early Action is Key to Heart Health
Knowing the warning signs and symptoms of a heart attack is key to preventing death, but many people don’t know the signs or are in denial that they’re having a heart attack when it happens. About 47 percent of sudden cardiac deaths occur outside the hospital, which suggests that many people with heart disease don’t […]