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...Schipper can't get to his medication quickly or if it doesn't kick in, he will experience a neurological event that 28 million Americans know all too well--the tidal wave of headaches known as a migraine. For Schipper the pain is sudden and sharp. "The front quarter of my head begins to pound and throb," he says. In extreme cases, he vomits violently every 20minutes. His senses of smell and hearing become agonizingly acute. "All I want to hear is gentle white noise at most and no movement, please. If there's a car alarm that goes...
...absence of symptoms, 95% of all sudden cardiac arrest victims will die on the scene. You can try to call for help, but in these dire cases, there isn't much time. It takes the average Emergency Medical Service team approximately 6 to 12 minutes to respond to any type of call, but with every minute that passes the chance of survival of sudden cardiac arrest decreases by 7 to 10%, according to the American Heart Association. (See pictures of college mascots...
...works. More than 70% of all sudden cardiac arrest victims are saved by defibrillators. Laura Friend, the cofounder of Parent Heart Watch, an advocacy group that helps to raise awareness and protect children from sudden cardiac death, knows that percentage all too well. Three years ago, she lost her 12-year-old daughter Sarah at a water park in Texas from the same condition as Nwankwo's. An AED might have saved Sarah's life. "It is an epidemic," Friend says. "When are we going to realize we are losing too many kids...
...House obtains complete domination by Sunday, May 20, there will be a sudden death round...
...TIME: Describe your own experience of Zimbabwe's sudden implosion...