Jennifer Gentry doesn’t see herself as a hero. “I’m a wife, a mom, and a nurse,” she says simply. But on April 2, the Edmond resident saved two lives within just a few hours.
Jennifer, a cardiac ICU nurse at Integris Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City since 2018, lives in Edmond with her husband and their three-year-old child. She never imagined her training would be tested twice in one day outside hospital walls.
That morning, Jennifer was finishing a workout at the Mitch Park YMCA when she noticed a crowd gathered around a man who had collapsed. “He didn’t look good,” she said. When she offered help, bystanders explained he had fallen while running on a treadmill and was unresponsive…