After a weekend of yard work in August 2013, Nagy, 61, noticed an aching in his neck and arms. A college football player and still active despite his age, Nagy just shook off the pain. However, when the pain refused to abate he paid a visit to his primary physician to make sure everything was alright. Turns out, everything wasn't.
“He did an EKG, then walked out,” Nagy remembers. “He returned with an aspirin and a beta blocker, and told me an ambulance was on the way.” Nagy had suffered a heart attack without him knowing. That day, he was treated with a bypass and spent three weeks recovering in the hospital.
A week after returning home, Nagy, who’d been sitting quietly, doing a crossword puzzle, noticed his 13-year-old son, Kyle, was on the phone. “He said he’d called 911,” Rick says. “I asked why, and he said, ‘I called it for you.’”
To read the rest of Rick's story, and how he received a new lease on life, visit Westchester Medical Center's blog here.