Nine years ago today, Chris and Skip Over lost their son Nicholas to sudden cardiac arrest.
Nine years ago today, Chris and Skip Over lost their son Nick to sudden cardiac arrest.
A handsome, lively 20-year-old studying to be a computer technician, Nicholas was apparently in perfect health. After he died in his sleep, his family found out that he’d had an undiagnosed heart condition called arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD).
“When you lose a child like that, you can go into a dark hole and never come out,” Chris says. “Or you can do something in their memory that will help other people.”
Chris and Skip Over did something. In 2002 they founded the Nicholas Ryan Over Foundation. The organization donates automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to schools and community organizations and promotes AED programs, AED and CPR training, and education and awareness about sudden cardiac arrest in young people. In the past eight years, the Nicholas Ryan Over foundation has donated dozens of AEDs and has provided training for hundreds of people in South Central Pennsylvania.
Donating a Powerheart AED to Northern Lebanon School
The foundation works closely with AED distributors in South Central Pennsylvania including Cardiac Science AED expert Chip Miller.
Chris and Skip have been tireless fundraisers, organizing an annual dinner and auction to raise money for the foundation’s work. The 2010 auction is May 15 at the Elks Club in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
“People are finally realizing the importance of AEDs, especially in schools and athletic programs,” Chris says. “I know Nicholas would have been proud of what we’re doing.”
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