Nancy Pardo and her husband Tom.
Nancy Pardo
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Nancy Pardo
Nancy Pardo and her husband Tom.
Nancy Pardo
This story is a part of the My Unsung Hero sequence, from the Hidden Mind group, about folks whose kindness left a long-lasting impression on another person.
In 2015, Nancy Pardo and her husband, Tom, spent just a few days climbing in a nationwide park in Maine. One morning, as they had been strolling on a footpath, Tom fainted. Later that day, he fainted once more.
They went straight to the native hospital, the place docs ran a number of exams however couldn’t work out why Tom had handed out. So Tom and Nancy had been despatched on their approach.
They left the hospital and began strolling, searching for a spot to have lunch. After they stopped exterior a restaurant to have a look at a menu, Tom fainted once more. And this time, it was a lot worse.
“He went down tougher and stayed out longer,” Nancy recalled.
Strangers appeared and referred to as 911, and Nancy and Tom went again to the identical hospital, the place they stayed for a number of days. From there they had been transferred to the most important hospital within the space, Northern Mild Japanese Maine Medical Heart in order that Tom may get a extra difficult process – a coronary heart catheterization. It might permit his docs to find out if Tom had any blockages, which could clarify the fainting spells.
However simply as earlier than, the medical group couldn’t discover any apparent issues. For Tom and Nancy, the uncertainty was terrifying.
“I used to be very afraid,” Nancy mentioned. “And the subsequent morning, when the physician got here to launch us, I requested him, ‘What will we do now?'”
She assumed he would recommend one other take a look at or one other specialist. However he did not say something like that.
“Dr. Isidore Okere, who I’ll keep in mind my complete life, mentioned to us, ‘Go reside your life,'” Nancy recalled. “It wasn’t in a flippant approach. It was his recommendation to us.”
And that’s what they’ve performed. Regardless of two bouts of most cancers since 2008, Tom is doing properly and walks greater than 5 miles a day. And Dr. Isidore Okere continues to work on the Northern Mild Japanese Maine Medical Heart, in Bangor, Maine, the place he’s a heart specialist.
“Now we’re…taking Dr. Okere’s recommendation as typically as we are able to, making an attempt to not be afraid,” Nancy mentioned. “And to go reside our lives.”
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