[Music playing] Shayna: I played D1 basketball at Akron University. Pretty much my whole life, everything was running, lifting, conditioning, doing hard things. I mean, getting your heart rate up all the time. The date was November 29th, 2024. [Text on screen: Shayna Heart Patient] Shayna: My, at the time, two-year-old had woken up early morning, and he had came to our bedroom, and I guess I said something to him. I told him, "Grayson, lay down." A couple of minutes later was when my husband heard me kind of aspirating, kind of trying to get my breath. [Text on screen: Shayna experienced sudden cardiac arrest] Shayna: And so then he rolled over and tried to get me to wake up, and I wouldn't wake up. [Text on screen: Trevor Shayna's husband] Trevor: It was almost like a grunt sound, but it wasn't like ... periodically it was like one, and I'm like, "That's not right." So then I got on her chest almost while she was laying in bed, and I'm feeling her neck. I'm feeling her cheeks, just to see if she was taking a breath, or she was moving at all. And that's when I realized, like, "Yeah, I have no heart rate, I have no heartbeat, I have no pulse." So that's when I pulled her off and immediately started CPR, immediately, and waited for 911 to get here, did CPR for four minutes. 27 years old, being with her for 14 years. Like, we were children when we met each other, freshmen in high school, children. And to see her like that with my two kids here, it was horrible. [Text on screen: Misty Shayna's mom] Misty: It was just something out of the blue, you know? There was never any signs, never any warnings. I had no idea. Trevor: Every step of the way, everyone at the Ross made sure we felt like family, like family, really. I stayed with her every night, and they had a nurse all night in her bedroom, telling me everything they were doing, from medicine to what their plan was tomorrow. Every 15 minutes, she was giving me updates on what Shayna was going through. [Text on screen: Curt Daniels, MD Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease program Ohio State Wexner Medical Center] Curt Daniels, MD: Shayna was fortunate to come to Ohio State because of the multidisciplinary care that she could receive at the Ross Heart Hospital. We don't know the cause initially, we don't know why this happened. [Text on screen: Following extensive investigation, Shayna was diagnosed with ARVC, a rare genetic heart disease.] Curt Daniels, MD: So to have access to electrophysiologists, heart failure and cardiomyopathy specialists, cardiovascular geneticists in this same setting is really critical to making the correct diagnosis and understanding why she had a sudden cardiac arrest so we could prevent a future episode. [Text on screen: ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) is like a pacemaker, but treats abnormal heart rhythm.] Shayna: They put an ICD in to help me for the rest of my life in case an event would happen again. Still unknown. Trevor: Dr. Daniels had always said, "We're not going to leave a stone unturned. We're going to figure out what happened. We're going to get you a diagnosis, and we're going to do it any way we can." Shayna: The genetic counselor, Elizabeth Jordan, reached out to me to see if I would like to do the genetic testing. [Text on screen: Elizabeth Jordan, GC Genetics counselor Ohio State Wexner Medical Center] Shayna: And I was like, "Absolutely, yes." Because ultimately, I have two young children and if something was genetic, I want to know for them. Curt Daniels, MD: Genetics can be the key to unlocking the reason why this happened to a particular person. If we have a genetic mutation, we can test others in the family. [Text on screen: Salvatore Savona, MD Electrophysiologist Ohio State Wexner Medical Center] Curt Daniels, MD: So maybe they won't suffer the same cardiac arrest, preventive therapies, other therapies to try to prevent those events. [Text on screen: Dr. Savona manages Shayna's heart rhythm care.] Shayna: Once we did find out that it was the genetic heart disease ARVC, then we were able to get most of our questions answered, and Dr. Daniels was great at that. Curt Daniels, MD: She is completely intact neurologically, from a cardiovascular standpoint, and it's all because of starting CPR immediately. That's what saved her life. [Text on screen: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center For more information, visit: wexnermedical.osu.edu/heart] [Music fades]