October 24, 2007, was just another other work day for 54-year-old Sunrise Hospital nurse Grace Diamonte and her husband, Synor Funcion. Neither had any way of knowing that within minutes, doctors at her workplace would be fighting for her life.

As they prepared to go to work, Diamonte discovered that something was seriously wrong. It didn't seem like much at all at first. She felt a little weird, a little slow in her movements. She tried to tell her husband about it, and that's when she realized she couldn't talk. Any words that she could force out were slurred gibberish.