After feeling his heart race too often, Lyons told his parents on Christmas Eve he couldn't breathe. His mother, Karen, had a flashback to 1986 when her soon-to-be husband had similar symptoms. Porter's father, Doug, found himself on a waiting list for a new heart back until November 1987, when he finally got the word that there was a donor for a transplant.
Porter was admitted to Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna where doctors quickly realized he had a serious heart problem and felt it best Porter be transferred to the Cleveland Clinic.
LifeFlight was Porter's first helicopter ride. After arriving to the Cleveland Clinic on Christmas morning, the cardiologists used medications and special pumps to see how Porter's heart would respond.
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