“There’s never enough help we can have for our kids.”
Winnipeg Blue Bomber, and father, Adam Bighill spoke with Global News this morning to share his son’s story – and his treatment at HSC Winnipeg-Children’s Hospital – which includes multiple surgeries to his bilateral cleft lip and palate, the very same condition Adam himself was also born with.
In hockey, if a goaltender has good form, the saves follow. It is equally true when it comes to saving a life. Just ask Rick St. Croix.
One early morning last December, the developmental goaltending coach for the AHL’s Manitoba Moose suffered a heart attack and collapsed at the airport while set to travel with the team on a road trip. It was the “widowmaker”, a 100 per cent blockage of the LAD (left anterior descending) artery. A widowmaker heart attack can stop the heart very fast and that is exactly what happened to St. Croix.
