JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Nearly 20,000 people participated in the First Coast Heart Walk on Saturday to fund research for those affected by heart disease and stroke.
Olivia Bruce and Caitlin Brunell with the American Heart Association said walkers do it as survivors, loved ones, or just participants getting their big hearts pumping. And for Bruce, she personally had an ASD and VSD repair as an infant.
“Along with many others here, I proudly wear my scar as a badge of honor,” Bruce said. “We know that the statistics we face in our fight against heart disease and stroke are staggering, and many of those numbers are personal to myself, but also the nearly 20,000 that are here today.”…