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Teenager’s story of surviving cardiac arrest featured at health summit
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The crowd gives a standing ovation as Gainesville High School senior Jaileen Brown, left, steps on stage with his family. Brown survived cardiac arrest and was featured as part of the Northeast Georgia Regional ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Summit Friday, March 23, at Chateau Elan in Braselton. - photo by Nick Bowman
Squanka Thomas couldn’t believe the call about her 17-year-old son Jaileen Brown’s heart stopping. He was a healthy teenager who exercised every day, she thought. When she arrived at the hospital, Brown watched as the medical team worked on her son. “He was laying basically on the table, and it looks like he was seizing to me. I just didn’t want him to die,” she said.