DES MOINES, Iowa — Tinika Roland knows what it feels like to get her heart shocked.
“I had just come in from Walmart, shut the door, and I was like, man, I’m out of breath,” Roland explained. “So, I was like, let me get ready, sit down, and as I was about to sit down, that’s when I got shocked by the door and then I proceeded to get shocked four more times.”
The shocks saved Tinika, and came from a device in her chest, an ICD. Implantable cardioverter defibrillator. It monitors her heartbeat. It can also correct her heart’s rhythm, and even save her life…