After Darren Bush had a “widowmaker” heart attack about three years ago that could have killed him, he took a step back and reevaluated his future.
“When you’re lying on a table in the ER with eight people shaving and poking and prodding and inserting and all that, nothing else really matters at that point,” he told WPR. “Then they wheel you off, and you either come out of there alive or don’t come out of there — it gets pretty real.”
Bush has been the sole owner of Rutabaga Paddlesports, a Madison-area specialty sporting goods shop, since 2007. But the shop has been a part of his life since 1990 when he started working there part-time on the weekends selling canoes…