For American Heart Month, Denver7 is highlighting the importance of regular physicals and check-ups with a doctor as that may have been the key to saving one Wheat Ridge father’s life.
Michael Marcoux, born and raised in Wheat Ridge, and a 1993 Air Force Academy graduate, has spent most of his life in Colorado. He has a passion for physical fitness. He regularly exercise and even trains for Spartan Races with his son. During an annual physical, a CT scan revealed an ascending aortic aneurysm, or a ballooning of the aorta that can rupture with catastrophic results.
It shows that even the healthiest of people can have unseen ailments.
“I believe, had I not known about it or not acted upon it, five years down the road I would have been leaving my wife and five kids without a father,” Marcoux said…