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 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Joyce Tierney and her daughter, Heidi, were rolled off to surgery one morning two years ago, just days after learning they had the same serious heart condition. They emerged with implanted defibrillators that brought their erratic heartbeats under control with periodic jolts of electricity.
All was well until June, when Joyce Tierney, of Montpelier, Ind., received sobering news: The 47-year-old mother of five was among nearly a quarter million Americans whose defibrillators have been recalled this year due to defects that could cause them to malfunction.
"I kept waking up in the middle in the middle of night thinking it was a bad dream or something," she said.
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