Impact the lives of St. Jude kids – St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital.

LEBANON, Ore. (KATU) — On Feb. 6, 2025, a group of Safeway employees in Lebanon demonstrated heroism when a co-worker
suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in the store’s break room.

Mary Stratton, John Escalera, Brandy Davis, and Tammy Vanepps-
Fox acted in time, performing CPR and using an Automated
External Defibrillator to administer two shocks before emergency responders arrived.

Their prompt actions were crucial in giving the patient a fighting
chance at survival.

Upon arrival, Lebanon Fire District crews continued treatment,
applying two additional shocks and achieving Return of
Spontaneous Circulation before stabilizing the patient was
transported to the hospital and discharged several days later.

The lifesaving efforts of Stratton, Escalera, Davis, and Vanepps-
Fox were recognized at the Lebanon Fire District’s Board Meeting
on March 11, 2025.

LFD also expressed gratitude to its crew members for their
professional response. The Fire District encourages the
community to stay prepared by learning CPR and AED
skills, which can be life-saving.

lebanonfireoregon.gov/321/PulsePoint.

On January 11, 1922, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson became
the first person to receive an injection of the hormone insulin
for Type-1 diabetes—a disease that for millennia had been
considered a death sentence for anyone who developed it.

Canadian scientists Frederick Banting (right) and Charles
Best circa 1924, three years after they successfully isolated insulin for the first time.

Laboratory on the University of Toronto campus where
Banting and Best carried out some of their research on
insulin.

George Washington, the American revolutionary leader and
first president of the United States, died at his estate in
Mount Vernon, Virginia. He was 67 years old.

Modern medical authors largely have concluded that the
former president likely died from extensive bloodletting
which may have caused hypovolemic shock.  

 

George Washington’s Death Mask.

On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Louis Washkansky received
the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in
Cape Town, South Africa.

Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from chronic heart
disease, received the transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-
old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. 

The new heart recipient died eighteen days later of pneumonia,
largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed
his immune system.

Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who trained at the University of Cape    
Town and in the United States, performed the revolutionary medical      
operation.

Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922 – 2001)