“I was so happy I made the right decision.”

Brutally attacked at her place of employment as she pulled into work one Monday morning, Heilyn Hernandez Pages was doused in gasoline and set Joelma Dias wasn’t convinced she was having a stroke. During a fun night of hanging out with her friends at church, the right side of her body suddenly began to feel weak. Joelma felt fine otherwise, and insisted that she was going to head home and get some rest. Luckily, a friend of hers convinced her to go to the hospital instead, where she learned she had suffered a life-threatening stroke.