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Email conversation with City Fire Officers Union President Steve Fugate,  September 2007:

Wow, it's been TWO YEARS already since your by-pass surgery? Amazing!!!!

Did many other members follow up on their health care following your big scare?

Are you completely healed now, can do anything you want, etc????

-ELG

Yes indeed, two years. Time flies when you're having fun!

And yes, a SIGNIFICANT number of our members (both Locals) took the opportunity to do the scan after my "story" got out. It was common knowledge that I ran every other day and that I had NO signs or symptoms at all. In fact, the ONLY reasons I had the scan myself was to encourage others as there was some genuine reluctance and concern about confidentiality.

Completely healed and I can do anything I want though I still can't dance. In fact, I had the surgery on September 21, 2005 and [less than two months later] ran a 5-K for the Arthritis Foundation (my daughter, Shannon, works there) on November 19, 2005. Just did the 9-11 Run To Remember and actually took nearly a minute off of my time from last year.

I am VERY lucky to have caught my problem. My Cardiac Surgeon said there are generally two ways to identify the kind of blockage that I had: Cardiac Catheterization (which I would not have had absent the scan) or an autopsy. I'll take option "A" any day!

Stephan G. Fugate, President IAFF Local 964

May I quote you? I'd like to add your response to our Fitness page. -ELG

ABSOLUTELY! I have done my very best to be the "poster child" of this issue and I am convinced that very non-invasive scan saved my life or, at the very least, saved me from debilitating consequences.

Stephan G. Fugate, President IAFF Local 964