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Woman Meets Life Savers After Going Into Cardiac Arrest

DENVER (CBS4) - A woman who was saved when she went into cardiac arrest met the people who kept her alive on Thursday.

There were lots of hugs at at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver on Thursday as Montoya and her brother met her rescuers.

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Roberta Montoya was unconscious on April 2 when she arrived with her brother Louie outside the hospital's emergency room. They were coming from a nearby mall.

A security guard frantically pulled her from the car in the parking lot and rushed her into the emergency room for life-saving care.

Montoya wound up having two surgeries to clear blockages.

"I can't thank you enough from the bottom of my new heart -- my cleaned out heart, my roto-rooter-ed heart -- I can't thank you enough," Montoya told the hospital employees.

Prior to her incident, Montoya had not seen a doctor in 10 years. She says she now takes better care of herself and walks regularly.

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