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Former B.C. Lions football player Sonny Homer
was alone at home 10:30 p.m. one night on his
living room chesterfield. Suddenly, a knife-like
pain gripped the centre of his chest. ‘‘It radiated .
down my left hand, them my right...1 was
_Mauseous, and sweat streamed down my face,°’
alled the bachelor of his first major heart attack
. which struck him at age 35.

headed by Dr. John Hunt,
formed the Cardiac Fitness
Program at Lions Gate.
Hospital. The programme for
beginners is at the hospital
where novice Primers meet
three times weekly.

_ Within two years, Homer
now. 39, was to face three
more ‘attacks. and undergo
open heart surgery once. in
Lions Gate Hospital.

Today, as a member = of
“‘Pump Primers’’, a group of
former cardiac patients led mild calisthenics in Lions
by 63-year-old Ian Goldie, Gate Hospital for . new
Homer: is trying to help comers, with a more inten-
survivors understand and

sive work-out at the West
snap out of the impending

; I Vancouver YMCA for vete-
, post-cardiac depression per- rans like Homer and Goldie.
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The program consists of

7 “It had a really adverse.
effect on me.I. never even
related it to me in my football.

_ days. (Homer had retired two

~ years: before he became ill). .

‘Jf I was an older man, it
wouldn’t have been too bad,
but. I was a young man, 35,”’
he said.

"Added Goldie, who has
-. had three ‘attacks, two of
~ “them minor: ‘‘It’s’ a terrible
sensation to know you can’t.
_ walk.. You have to learn to
_ walk all over again. At first
~.you don’t even have the

‘strength. to hold up your
~body. My legs just buckled.”’

~~ A-YEAR LATER on April
. 1, 1974, six cardiac patients
-. under a group of doctors

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Participants who are-refer-
red by their personal physi-
cians first must undergo a
**stress test’’ at the hospital

before being admitted to

either programs to determine

the state of their physicai

health. .

According to the B.C.
Heart Foundation, for whom
Primers will volunteer their
time in canvassing during

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