She Fought For His Heart

Most people don’t know the difference between a heart attack and a cardiac arrest, but former reporter Kris Patrow learned the terrifying difference instantly when her husband, photojournalist Dave Ogle, collapsed beside her while they were watching TV. His heart had stopped. The headline was Death.

Their lives had always revolved around the frantic, adrenaline-fueled pace of the newsroom, but that night, the DEADLINE wasn’t for a story—it was for survival. In a moment of sheer instinct, Kris became a first responder, frantically performing CPR to buy Dave precious minutes.

DEADLINE is a searingly honest, dual-perspective memoir that reads like a thriller. From Kris’s eyewitness account of Dave’s sudden death and the battle to save him to Dave’s shocking, fragmented return to consciousness and his long, grueling race to reclaim the life they shared. Both familiar with high-pressure situations, they now turn their journalistic focus inward, chronicling the trauma, medical maze, and emotional wreckage of sudden cardiac arrest in hopes the hard lessons they learned can turn DEADLINES like theirs into lifelines for others.

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