12/30/2025
Lindsay MacOdrum and her family have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season—a new chance at life after an unexpected health scare almost turned deadly during a family trip to New York City. And it could have happened to virtually anyone.
The 41-year-old mother and elementary school teacher was visiting from Canada last June with her family. During a bike ride in Central Park, she went into cardiac arrest and collapsed in front of her kids. Her teenage stepson immediately began CPR (he just learned it a week before for a job as a camp counselor). She was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside. Emergency responders thought her chances of survival were slim. Her parents would later fly in to say their goodbyes.
But thanks to the quick actions of paramedics and doctors in the Emergency Department, and then a medical procedure that discovered an undetected heart condition, she is now back home and her heart is functioning normally.
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