Healing the heart

Brook Highland man’s journey back to health

By LEAH INGRAM EAGLE

It has been 18 months since Jim Baker suffered a heart attack in July 2021. He was 55 years old and in good health and hadn’t had any previous heart symptoms. The only pill he took each day was a vitamin.

“It caught me completely out of the blue,” Baker said. “I had pain around 1 p.m. and went to the emergency room around 10 p.m. The pain was incredibly bad in my chest, but I still didn’t think I was having a heart attack even when my wife was driving me to the ER.”

See BAKER | page A26

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