“The middle of my chest hurt, I had pain going down my right arm and pain in my back on the left side,” Tagger says. At one point, she was having difficulty walking.
As fate would have it, Tagger had recently updated her CPR certification a day before having a heart attack. “I recognized the signs of a heart attack and called emergency services,” she says. “I am glad I have been CPR certified for years. Otherwise I may not have taken the appropriate actions.