- Jeff Goss, 53, was heading out to an Arizona Cardinals baseball game with his wife, Michelle, when he began feeling very ill, leading him to cough violently, clench his chest and sway
- She could then be seen asking him on camera, “Does your chest hurt?" which he confirmed. Michelle told Inside Edition: “Once he said his chest hurt, I was like ‘Okay, wait this might be a heart attack' "
- Nearly an hour after Michelle called 911, Jeff was placed in surgery to install a stent to help unblock his artery, Inside Edition reported. The couple noted that Michelle’s quick thinking and 911 call ultimately saved Jeff’s life
A man is lucky to be alive after his wife accurately diagnosed his heart attack and called 911.
Jeff Goss, 53, told Inside Edition that he and his wife Michelle had been heading out to an Arizona Cardinals baseball game when he began feeling very ill. The couple’s living room camera caught the incident on camera.
In the video. Jeff could be seen walking into the living room area and coughing violently as his concerned wife followed him and asked him what was wrong. He could be seen further clutching his chest and taking a step back.
“Jeff came out saying he was nauseous. He was dry heaving,” Michelle recalled to the outlet. “He was like coughing violently, and I kept saying what’s wrong. And he kind of swayed, and I put him on the couch.”
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She could then be seen asking him on camera, “Does your chest hurt?” which he confirmed. Michelle told Inside Edition: “Once he said his chest hurt, I was like ‘Okay, wait this might be a heart attack.’ ”
Although Jeff said he “thought it really wasn’t that bad” and kept “telling” his wife not to “call” 911 since he felt “fine,” she did it anyway. She could be heard telling first responders on the phone, “Yeah, I think my husband’s having a heart attack.”
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It was later determined by paramedics that Jeff was far from being well and had been in the throes of a “widow-maker” heart attack, which is a severe condition in which there is a “full blockage” in the “biggest artery” in the heart that “provides about 50%” of a person’s “heart muscle’s blood supply,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.
“It was kind of mild at first but then it gradually it got worse and worse,” Jeff recalled.
Paramedics arrived shortly after the call and could be seen taking his vitals and working on him. One first responder could be heard telling him in the video, “Don't worry we got you.”
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Nearly an hour after Michelle called 911, Jeff was placed in surgery to install a stent to help unblock his artery, Inside Edition reported. The couple noted that Michelle’s quick thinking and 911 call ultimately saved Jeff’s life.
“The doctor told us if it had been 10 more minutes that he wouldn’t be here,” a tearful Michelle told Inside Edition. She added that she wanted to share the video to show people what a massive heart attack could look like.
Rigved Tadwalkar, a consulting cardiologist at the Pacific Heart Institute, told Inside Edition that heart attacks do not usually look as dramatic as they do on TV or in movies and people can have several gradual symptoms all at once.
“Sometimes when people are having heart attacks in real life, it’s really not like anything we see on TV. It may just be some shortness of breath, some indigestion, sweatiness [and] nausea,” he said.
