For Tony Chin, October 30th, 2020, started off as a pretty normal day.
The Tamarac Fire Rescue captain was teaching at the Coral Springs Fire Academy that day. However, he felt tired and weak, but didn’t think too much of it until a friend, a fellow firefighter, noticed something was off. “I’ve known him for many many years and he said you know something just didn’t look right. He said let’s go to the hospital and get you checked out. He then pulled my line, which I always tell my patients, ‘hey, if it’s nothing, you’ll be home in an hour,'” said Chin.
It turns out it wasn’t ‘nothing’. He had 100 percent blockages in parts of his heart.
The 47-year-old dad found himself at Broward Health Medical Center and then in the Cardiac ICU with a coronary artery disease that could’ve led to a heart attack.
Dr. Mohamed Osman performed the emergency life-saving surgery to remove the blockages in Chin’s heart.