“The pain was intense and unrelenting,” Bruce Johnson wrote in his recently released book “Heart to Heart: 12 People Discover Better Lives After Their Heart Attacks.” My hands moved to my chest to put pressure on a hemorrhage that wasn’t there. No blood. No hole in my starched, white dress shirt. The pain was somewhere deep in my chest where I couldn’t get to it.
Johnson, a television reporter with local CBS affiliate WUSA 9, was having a heart attack. He was on assignment at East Capitol Dwellings in far Northeast, when it struck. His cameraman rushed to the nearest fire station. Johnson was taken to Greater Southeast Community Hospital and later flown to Washington Hospital Center.
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