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Resident aims to educate on posting emergency information

Encourages residents to have contact, medication information easily accessible

In the normal evening hours a Sun City West couple went from enjoying time with a friend to a medical emergency.

After dinner, John Zimmerman, his wife and friend were playing cards when they noticed the friend did not look right and was not responding. A call to emergency services was immediately placed, but the pair quickly realized they had several challenges ahead.

“We were trying to find the kids’  names or phone numbers and that was a nightmare and the EMTs asked  us what medications she was on before they began working on her,” he said.

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