Walking for Pop ?
This Saturday, our team at FareRx is doing our first-ever Heart Walk, and I couldn?t be more fired up. I?m big on tradition and I think this will become a new one for the team - a way to get out together, do something good, and support AHA right here in Philly.
But for me, this one?s personal.
My grandfather - Pop Cangi - was and still is my idol. The definition of a family man. He was an Army vet, a bricklayer born to Italian immigrant parents in Philly, and the father of five kids. I?m one of 19 grandkids.
Pop had his first heart attack at 42 and lived with heart disease for the rest of his life. He made it to 80 - which means nearly half of his life, he lived with heart disease. But if you knew him, you?d never know it. He was always smiling, always cracking jokes, always showing up for his family.
That?s why I love that the walk starts at Citizens Bank Park. Pop loved the Phillies. Every year, he?d take me and my cousins out of school for Opening Day - from the last season at the Vet to the first at CBP. I can still feel him there every time I step inside that stadium.
So on Saturday morning, I?ll be walking with my FareRx family and my kids, thinking about him and about all the families who?ve been touched by heart disease.
This Saturday, our team at FareRx is doing our first-ever Heart Walk, and I couldn?t be more fired up. I?m big on tradition and I think this will become a new one for the team - a way to get out together, do something good, and support AHA right here in Philly.
But for me, this one?s personal.
My grandfather - Pop Cangi - was and still is my idol. The definition of a family man. He was an Army vet, a bricklayer born to Italian immigrant parents in Philly, and the father of five kids. I?m one of 19 grandkids.
Pop had his first heart attack at 42 and lived with heart disease for the rest of his life. He made it to 80 - which means nearly half of his life, he lived with heart disease. But if you knew him, you?d never know it. He was always smiling, always cracking jokes, always showing up for his family.
That?s why I love that the walk starts at Citizens Bank Park. Pop loved the Phillies. Every year, he?d take me and my cousins out of school for Opening Day - from the last season at the Vet to the first at CBP. I can still feel him there every time I step inside that stadium.
So on Saturday morning, I?ll be walking with my FareRx family and my kids, thinking about him and about all the families who?ve been touched by heart disease.
9 out of 10 people who suffer cardiac arrest outside the hospital die. In most of those cases, bystander CPR was not performed. But we can change this. ?
Cardiac arrests happen at work, in homes, on athletic fields and in neighborhoods everywhere, and the readiness of our community can be the difference between life and death. ?
It's time to unite, take action, and save lives. Every dollar donated, means more people trained in lifesaving CPR, more research and more lifesaving moments for everyone. Together, we can turn bystanders into lifesavers.?