Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 2012 Page: 3 of 16
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Theresa is a widow and a single
mom who works part-time at Ch-
isholm Trail School. She lost her hus-
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“He was on his way to work in
Italy (Texas), one morning and that
was it. I learned about it on the morn-
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me.”
Theresa and Gavin have a strong
support group of family and friends,
and staff at both schools.
“They came to see me in the hos-
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care of Gavin,” she said. “I had sur-
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“They were very surprised and thankful
when we first told them about the benefit,”
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‘Thank You.’ They are all in great spirits
and just praying each day, as we all are.’
The benefit is a come-and-go event
from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
“The event is to help support this won-
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as the square for a safe trick-
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age groups as well as “Best
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entire family and join us
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have a list of all participants
in the Oct. 25 issue.
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on the phone.
Then, Gavin said, a friend of
his mom’s arrived and took him
home with her to spend the night.
“The ambulance arrived and they
brought in that bed thing and
they put her in the ambulance,”
he said. “I didn’t get to see her
until the next day.”
Gavin is an A/B honor stu-
dent, likes to play football, base-
ball, sings in the school choir and
is in 4-H. He has a duck named
Quackers and a dog named
Tankie.
Theresa Dillard has her own
recollections of that evening. “I
was fixing to go to bed after we
came home from football prac-
tice,” she said. “I have a defibril-
lator/pacemaker implanted in
my chest. All of a sudden it start-
ed shocking me.”
She said she lost count at
26 shocks. “Each shock feels
like getting kicked in the chest
by a horse. They told me I was
shocked 53 times in 43 minutes.”
Theresa said Gavin held her
hand until they took her away.
“Once I got in the ambulance I
calmed down,” she said. “They
can’t give me an IV because I
have bad veins, they roll. My
blood pressure was erratic and
my heart rate was 230.”
There was some thought
that perhaps the implant was de-
fective, but it checked out OK,
she said. Because her heart rate
stayed so high, the defibrillator
was working overtime to bring it
down, but to no avail.
Theresa was born with two
holes in her heart, tetralogy of
fallot, which had been fixed. The
problem now is called atrial fibril-
lation. She has had two ablations,
and one open ablation, and two
open heart surgeries.
The ablations are to move
nerves and redirect paths around
the heart. “After that, they decid-
ed to leave the defibrillator in me
as a precaution,” she said. “I’ve
been pretty good since.”
Last April she felt shocks
and doctors decided to do an ab-
lation. She also had a pulmonary
valve replaced.
“I’m 38 years old,” she said.
“I know age is on my side be-
cause the shocks just wore me
out. I had a numb feeling for
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