Heroic Actions Saved His Life, but 7 Days in Coma Followed a Heart Attack in the Store
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It’s a Christmas Eve Miracle for HEB Sacker -
Above, Cecil Scholten stands with a walker at Dell Seton Hospital in Austin as he begins his recovery from a massive heart attack. Below is a picture of Cecil and his wife Lisa taken the day before his heart attack.
La Grange HEB employee Cecil Scholten was bagging groceries for a customer on Friday, Dec. 17, when he collapsed from a massive heart attack.
Scholten, known to many in La Grange as a helpful smiling face at the grocery store, spent a week in a coma. The doctors at Dell Seton in Austin feared the worst. Mother Rohani Weger, Cecil’s priest at St. James Epsicopal Church, came to the hospital on…
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