Marcus Spicer will likely never forget the startling and unsettling feeling of waking up in a Toronto hospital room, and not quite knowing how he got there.
âI thought I was having a dream,â the 17-year-old Manitouwadge resident recalled on Nov. 27 from his home. âI looked down at my arm and I saw these wires and needles sticking out of me.â
Spicer, who has a hereditary heart disease that cause muscles between his heart valves to thicken, suffered cardiac arrest on Oct. 4 while lifting some heavy bags of pellets for a wood stove.
He recalled the sensation of completely passing out in his auntâs home: âI was gone,â he said.