There’s a 17-year-old high school lacrosse player in Cincinnati named Grant Mays, who got hit in the chest with a ball earlier this month . . . and his HEART stopped.
It caused something called commotio cordis, where your heart gets caught between beats, and can’t start up again. (It’s pronounced Kuh-MO-she-oh cordis.)
Apparently there have only been 180 documented cases in the past 20 years, and most of the time it’s deadly.
But the athletic trainer for the other team was a guy named Craig Lindsey. And as soon as he saw Grant fall down, he ran out on the field . . . lifted his shirt up . . . saw a red mark on his chest . . . and knew what happened.
Then he used a defibrillator to shock his heart back into rhythm, and it saved his LIFE. Grant was back in school a few days later, and also graduated over the weekend.
But here’s the best part. Even though he never had to use it before, Craig says he’s had his defibrillator at every sporting event he’s covered for the past 21 YEARS. So it finally paid off.
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