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Family seeks answers after 12-year-old suffers heart attack, baffling doctors


Family seeks answers after 12-year-old suffers heart attack, baffling doctors

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – A Tennessee family says doctors have no idea why their son, who they said was in excellent health and active, suffered a heart attack at age 12 and was hospitalized with significant brain damage. Sammy Silverman, now 13, was supposed to be in eighth grade at Blackman Middle School in […]

Family seeks answers after 12-year-old suffers heart attack, baffling doctors


Family seeks answers after 12-year-old suffers heart attack, baffling doctors

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – A Tennessee family says doctors have no idea why their son, who they said was in excellent health and active, suffered a heart attack at age 12 and was hospitalized with significant brain damage. Sammy Silverman, now 13, was supposed to be in eighth grade at Blackman Middle School in […]

Family seeks answers after 12-year-old suffers heart attack, baffling doctors


Family seeks answers after 12-year-old suffers heart attack, baffling doctors

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – A Tennessee family says doctors have no idea why their son, who they said was in excellent health and active, suffered a heart attack at age 12 and was hospitalized with significant brain damage. Sammy Silverman, now 13, was supposed to be in eighth grade at Blackman Middle School in […]

Family seeks answers after 12-year-old suffers heart attack, baffling doctors


Family seeks answers after 12-year-old suffers heart attack, baffling doctors

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – A Tennessee family says doctors have no idea why their son, who they said was in excellent health and active, suffered a heart attack at age 12 and was hospitalized with significant brain damage. Sammy Silverman, now 13, was supposed to be in eighth grade at Blackman Middle School in […]

Family searches for answers as 12-year-old recovers from heart attack


Family searches for answers as 12-year-old recovers from heart attack

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Sammy Silverman should now be in eighth grade at Blackman Middle School. Instead, he and his parents have spent the last six weeks at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital in Nashville. Sammy’s parents say doctors still don’t know how their son, who they say was in excellent health and active, could […]

Medical fiction: camp beds, cupboards and cardiac arrest


Medical fiction: camp beds, cupboards and cardiac arrest

Brett T. Rolle was a brash young man with almost endless luck. He was one of those kids who glide through life, following one self-indulgent whim after another and leaving the consequences to others. When he and his friends put plastic wrap over the toilet bowl in the high school teachers’ bathroom, Brett evaded punishment […]

Fourth-grader declared brain dead after collapsing during recess on first day of school, family says


Fourth-grader declared brain dead after collapsing during recess on first day of school, family says

HENDERSON, Ky. (Gray News) – A Kentucky family says their 9-year-old daughter is brain dead after she collapsed during recess on her first day of fourth grade last week. On August 7, her first day of school at Cairo Elementary in Henderson, Lucy Nash collapsed during recess. Her family reported that her heart stopped for […]