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Story Summary
Shawn Nesbitt was in the middle of a heart attack for nearly six hours without knowing it.
The 40-year-old Jefferson City resident woke up in the early hours of August 18, 2023, with an odd, tingling feeling in his arm. Then, pressure from what felt like someone pushing hard against his chest started to build.
“It sounds silly, but when I thought of heart attacks, it was Fred Sanford of ‘Sanford and Son,’ clutching his chest for the big one,” Shawn said. “In my mind, that’s how a heart attack happened. It didn’t click that I was having a heart attack.”
His mind went elsewhere first: It could be soreness from the gym that day, or an infection like flu or COVID-19. Maybe it was a panic attack, something Shawn had experienced before.
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