Scott was always proactive about his heart health. As a 48-year-old father, he maintained a healthy diet and made it a point to get to CrossFit every day. He had always listened to his body — which is why he knew something wasn’t right when he started experiencing unusual pain on his left side and had longer than usual recovery times after his daily workouts. Scott turned to his cardiologist at Reading Hospital, where our team identified a massive blockage in one of the main arteries in his heart. We performed minimally invasive heart surgery in our cardiac catheterization lab that not only restored blood flow to his heart — it saved his life. Scott was back at home the same day as his procedure, and today, he’s back to hiking and biking with his family.