Published on Sunday, February 11, 2007
By Pasadena Star Staff Writer
Michael Moline snapped awake at 1:30 a.m. with a pinching sensation in his left shoulder blade.
The Agora Hills dad, 48, had tweaked his back playing tennis a few days prior and assumed the new pain was related. He got up, sank into his executive chair and comfortably surfed the Internet for the next two hours.
Glendale resident Vardin Vardanian, 49, was driving west on the 101 Freeway when he felt a bachache. He pulled off at Laurel Canyon, fought off a powerful wave of drowsiness and called his wife.
His first thoughts ran to a back injury diagnosed in his native Armenia. His wife convinced him to check with a doctor, and he drove another 20 minutes to the Kaiser Medical Offices staffed with Armenian-speaking doctors in Glendale.
Both men are lucky to be alive today. They, like Valencia resident Cynthia Impens, suffered serious heart attacks within hours of their initial hints something was wrong.
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