white female heart attack but lives

When paramedics responded to a 911 call from the mother of Raquel Hutt, they saw a slender, scared 24-year-old and assumed that the “crazy shooting pains” down her left arm were the result of a panic attack. Hutt didn’t look like a typical heart attack patient. But after Hutt’s mother, Jenny, insisted her daughter be taken to the hospital, doctors confirmed that that’s exactly what Hutt was: a 24-year-old heart attack patient. “It really shocked me how the EMT just looked at me — because of my age and because of my body type and because of the history I was explaining — like I was perfectly healthy,” Hutt told Today.

Not a typical patient

On Aug. 9, Hutt was visiting her mother when she went to the bathroom, and she experienced intense and unusual pain in her left arm. At the time she had no idea what was happening.

“I was screaming in pain,” she says. “My mom always takes everything seriously, so she called the ambulance within 45 seconds.”

About seven minutes later, EMTs arrived and “completely invalided” Hutt.

“(They said) I was panicking and made me walk from my mom’s apartment all the way through the building,” she says. “She’s on the fifth floor.”