Following my survival of SCA on April 2, 2004, my wife, Susie, and I felt there must be a reason that I became part of that 5% of people who "die" and live to tell about it.  After attending the Second SCA Survivor Summit in Washington, DC, and two Minnesota Survivors Conferences in the Twin Cities, we found many great people in the same situation----only they were doing something about it.

In 2005, we assisted our local school in applying for a grant from the Iowa Department of Health EMS Bureau to place AEDs in our school buildings.  With this grant and another grant from an area foundation, we were able to get three AEDs for our two school buildings.  Susie and I trained the school staff and the AEDs were put in place.  For the past several years, we have been teaching CPR/AED to students in Health Class.