FORT COLLINS — The dates will never escape Kenny Simianer.
His wife, Vicky Simianer, may be even quicker than him to recall Oct. 10, 1982, when Kenny Simianer had his first heart attack.
Another day the couple will now never forget is Nov. 26, 2017, when Kenny Simianer suffered another heart attack while working for his brother-in-law Jack Tamlin at the Fresh Cut Trees fir lot in north Fort Collins selling Christmas trees.
If it wasn’t for Katie Bork, who is Tamlin’s granddaughter and Simianer’s great-niece, Simianer may no longer be alive.
From the moment Simianer fell over with cardiac arrest inside a trailer at the tree lot, Bork refused to surrender, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation chest compressions on her great-uncle until the moment an ambulance crew arrived.
Weeks later, after Simianer had recovered from Bork breaking ribs on both sides of his chest while doing CPR, Vicky Simianer still tears up while remembering emergency room doctors telling her he had a slim chance of survival.
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