Heartattacks don't age discriminate....unfortunately I found this out first hand on the morning of July 7th 2025. My name is Scott Treon and I am 29 years old from Phoenixville Pennsylvania. What felt like a relatively normal Monday morning (albeit being the Monday after July 4th weekend) was about to be one of the most life changing mornings of my life. I woke up at 6:30 am to get ready for work and as I was brushing my teeth I felt a sudden pain/jolt between my shoulder blades a few times Naturally, I stretched and found a corner of the wall in my home where I leaned up and tried to work-out this unusual pain. Next was the nausea, followed by a sharp chest pain, excessive dripping sweat, and extreme shortness of breath. After going back and forth via text with my wife, whom is a nurse, she called to hear first hand how I was feeling and why I was not at work yet. Not even 2 minutes into the call, she was concerned and insisted on coming home to take me to the hospital as I couldn't speak more than two words without taking a deep breath. I insisted she was overreacting and that a hospital isn't going to do anything for a "pinched nerve" which is what I believed I had. When my wife arrived home her jaw dropped as I shuffled to the car with a large sweat towel around my neck and blue tinted lips/skin. Little did I know this was just the beginning...I was in the midst of having a heart attack with a 95% blockage in the LAD artery....the infamous widow maker. I arrived to the hospital where they took an immediate EKG in triage and quickly escorted me to a room in the ER where 8-10 individuals gathered around. Next thing I know I'm hooked up to various wires, oxygen, defibrillator pads on my chest and back, and the "crash cart" conveniently located just a few feet away. One of the nurses shoved a couple baby aspirin down my throat and a mysterious small white pill under my tongue as I was wheeled to a CAT scan room. It was laying on the CAT scan table when I realized I could breath again, the mysterious white pill under my tongue was nitroglycerin and dilates the arteries. This was a great sign that I was dealing with a blockage and not aortic dissection or another more severe heart issue that would require immediate open heart surgery. About 20 mins later the CAT scan results confirmed their was no aortic dissection or major issue with the heart or valves, and instead likely a blockage. Off to the Cath lab I went! Over the course of the next two hours or so I got an emergent stent placed in the LAD artery and proceeded to be welcomed by my Mom, Dad, and Wife in the Paoli hospital ICU. I spent two days in the hospital and then I was on the road to recovery! I enrolled in Paoli's outpatient Cardiac Rehab program and will compete my 30th and final session on 10/27/2025. I am one of the lucky ones to not only have survived a heart attack caused by a 95% blockage in the LAD, but also make a 100% recovery where there is no sign of lasting heart damage. I often wonder if this would have been the case if my loving wife didn't force me to go the hospital the morning of 7/7/2025. Did I mention we had just found we were expecting? That's right, my wife was 8 weeks pregnant during one of the most stressful times in our young married lives. We are grateful where we are today and can now focus on our baby girl due in February 2026.
