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6 | Health Matters: Providence Little Company of Mary San Pedro and Torrance A Team Dedicated to Recovery A heroic response by the ER team saved Boyd Jeffery after a stroke, but it was the specialists at the acute rehab unit who gave him his life back. B oyd E. Jeffery, an energetic 54-year- old Manhattan Beach real estate agent known on social media as Boyd the Broker, had a hemorrhagic stroke in December 2021. He says the care he received at Providence Little Company of Mary "clearly saved my life." Boyd's Monday morning had started routinely enough. He dropped off his 15-year-old son, Kai, at school. But within an hour, Boyd recalls, "I started to get a knife-like pain in the back of my neck." When he described his pain and dizziness to his wife, Xiomara, she urged him to call 911. The ambulance arrived just as Boyd lost consciousness. He was rushed to the comprehensive stroke care center at Providence Little Company of Mary Torrance, where the center's medical director, stroke neurologist Allison Arch, MD, and her team were waiting for him. When it was clear from a CT scan that Boyd had bleeding in the brain, neurosurgeon Jian Guan, MD, performed surgery to relieve the pressure that was causing his symptoms and threatening his life. Later, neurosurgeon Walavan Sivakumar, MD, performed a second surgery to place a temporary drain to control Boyd's intracranial pressure. Shane O'Donnell Photography

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