Cleared a 100% blockage that should've killed him

STEMI guy, 58, collapsed on a Saturday afternoon. We opened his LAD completely — staged the whole thing, one stent, TIMI 3. It's not a miracle, it's wires and practice and a team that didn't flinch. But the part that gets me: while we were in there, his wife was in the waiting room reading a magazine she'd picked up from the rack. She never looked up when we came out. She knew. Some days you carry the quiet after the cath lab around with you.