This will be a very busy week! On Thursday, 3/12/26, I'll be speaking at the American Stroke Association's annual event, CycleNation, down in Chelsea at Terminal Warehouse.
I'm going on at about 7pm and will discuss my book, My Stroke in the Fast Lane: A Journey to Recovery, as well as how the organization touched my life, specifically that Easter morning several years back.
After having a stroke on Interstate-95 at 65 mph (I know! It's everyone's worst nightmare), the ambulance brought me to a hospital that gave me a tPA (or clot buster). It didn't work.
I was still in critical condition. My heart was hovering over 30 bpm, with some beats occuring every 8 seconds.
With crucial minutes still ticking, another ambulance whisked me 43 miles north to Yale-New Haven Hospital, who were able to help me.
I am incredibly grateful to the American Heart / Stroke Association for its steadfast commitment to funding, facilitating, and accelerating the impact of its work on heart attack and stroke research. If Yale-New Haven Hospital's neuro-ICU unit didn't have cutting-edge, life-saving technology for stroke victims, I would not be here telling my story at CycleNationNYC,
