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No offense to his wife, Deidra, who weighs the same as she did when they started dating in ninth grade and who competes in cross-country skiing races same as him, but Ray Groth knew something just wasn’t right when he looked up the hill and there, ahead of him, was something he was completely unaccustomed to seeing: his wife’s backside.
And he couldn’t catch up.
Life has its pivotal moments. This was one of them. Ray didn’t know what was wrong, but something was. He’d felt it coming on for awhile, a shortness of breath, some dizziness, what could only be described as a power outage. At first he thought maybe his vest was too tight. But he loosened it and it didn’t help. He thought he’d gotten out of shape. But he’d never been out of shape.
Finally he went to see Dr. Roger Freedman, a heart specialist at the University of Utah.
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