DEADLINE: A Reporter's True Story of Cardiac Arrest and the Race to Survive
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DEADLINE: A Reporter's True Story of Cardiac Arrest and the Race to Survive
Sale price
$25.99
Regular price $31.99
Most people don’t know the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest, but former reporter Kris Patrow learned it in an instant when her husband, photojournalist Dave Ogle, collapsed beside her while they were watching TV. His heart had stopped. The headline was death.
For years, their lives had revolved around the frantic, adrenaline-fueled pace of the newsroom, but that night, the deadline wasn’t for a story – it was for survival. Acting on instinct, Kris became a first responder, performing CPR to buy Dave precious minutes.
DEADLINE is a searingly honest, dual-perspective memoir that reads like a thriller. From Kris’s eyewitness account of Dave’s sudden collapse and the battle to save him, to Dave’s fragmented fight to regain consciousness and strength, they raced to reclaim the life they had shared. Turning their journalistic lens inward, they chronicle the trauma, medical maze, and emotional aftermath of sudden cardiac arrest, transforming their most devastating deadline into a lifeline for others.
For years, their lives had revolved around the frantic, adrenaline-fueled pace of the newsroom, but that night, the deadline wasn’t for a story – it was for survival. Acting on instinct, Kris became a first responder, performing CPR to buy Dave precious minutes.
DEADLINE is a searingly honest, dual-perspective memoir that reads like a thriller. From Kris’s eyewitness account of Dave’s sudden collapse and the battle to save him, to Dave’s fragmented fight to regain consciousness and strength, they raced to reclaim the life they had shared. Turning their journalistic lens inward, they chronicle the trauma, medical maze, and emotional aftermath of sudden cardiac arrest, transforming their most devastating deadline into a lifeline for others.