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North Jersey Mom Left Brain Damaged After C-Section, Family Piecing Together What Went Wrong North Jersey Mom Left Brain Damaged After C-Section, Family Piecing Together What Went Wrong
North Jersey Mom Left Brain Damaged After C-Section, Family Piecing Together What Went Wrong Estefania Mesa was cheerful and excited to deliver her first baby as she was wheeled in for an emergency C-section at Hoboken University Medical Center on July 20. But that joyful moment never came for 28-year-old Mesa, who went into cardiac arrest on the operating table, causing a severe lack of oxygen to her brain for nearly nine minutes, family and friends told Daily Voice. The North Bergen mom has been in a vegetative state ever since, and her loved ones are struggling to understand where things went wrong. Despite a court order to release medical records from Mesa's procedure, Hoboke…

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Ridgefield Park Stroke Survivor: Steroids Ruined My Life Ridgefield Park Stroke Survivor: Steroids Ruined My Life
Ridgefield Park Stroke Survivor: Steroids Ruined My Life For awhile, James Shanahan of Ridgefield Park was invincible. In the gym he was the strongest. The most disciplined. The hardest worker. Then suddenly he wasn't. Shanahan was 28 years old and weeks out from his first bodybuilding competition when he suffered a stroke that would change his life forever. Now, more than three years into recovery, he's sharing his story in hopes that others will think twice about using steroids. "I knew it was important to take care of your body but never thought steroids would cause a stroke," the 32-year-old personal trainer said. "Had I kno…

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