10 Bringing health care news to your home As a result, Millard has been able to recover completely from a life-threatening incident. “It was like the heart attack was no big deal,” he said. “But I think that was because (cardiologist) Dr. (Nikunjkumar) Patel was there.” Quick diagnosis On the day Millard, 72, had his heart attack, he had been lifting weights and running steps in his basement. He felt good … until he started experiencing chest pains. “I thought it was from lifting weights,” he said. “I thought, ‘It couldn’t be a heart attack.’” He took the aspirin just in case, sat in his sauna for a minute, went to bed and then decided he needed treatment. His wife took him to CCH. The right heart care in the right place If there were a course on how to react to a heart attack correctly, Terry Millard would receive a gold star. He did everything correctly: 1 When he first felt tightness in his chest, he took an aspirin. 2After he went to bed and felt that something was wrong, he didn’t just go to sleep. Instead, he asked his wife, Beth, to take him to the emergency room. 3He headed straight for Columbus Community Hospital, which has a cardiac catheterization lab in which doctors can treat heart attack patients around the clock.
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