It's rare to know the exact moment and time you almost died, but that's the case for Omaha's Ginny Curley. "From my perspective, I went to bed Sunday night and woke up three days later in the hospital," Curley told KETV. On July 12, 2010, at exactly 6 a.m., Curley's alarm went off. At the same time, her heart stopped. "I reached over to try to wake her up and she stopped breathing altogether," her husband Mark remembered. Curley, who had no warning signs, said doctors later told her something about the sound of the alarm and the rhythm of her heart sent her into cardiac arrest.Her husband called 911. "Doing CPR didn't even cross my mind, but then the dispatcher walked me through it," he said. When she was 42 years old, Mark and the dispatcher helped save Ginny's life. He remembers the dispatcher counting the beats with him — one, two, three, four. "Keeping it as simple as possible. Just keep pumping," he said. Minutes later paramedics arrived and took over. Three days later, Ginny woke up in the hospital. "The doctors kept telling me, if you don't have the kind of care I had, it's hard to survive cardiac arrest," Ginny said. "The vast majority don't survive it."The mother of three said she's lucky to be here."My goal is to pay it forward so others don't have to experience that kind of trauma," she said.Dr. Eric Ernest, an associate professor of emergency medicine at UNMC, said CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, can mimic about 30% of the heart's blood output, a key in surviving cardiac arrest"You're basically compressing the heart between the sternum and backbone causing a squeezing effect," Ernest said. "Because there's valves, it causes the heart to force blood in a one-way flow and provide that life-saving measure to stabilize a patient until they get to better care."According to the American Heart Association, more than 350,000 people go into what's called 'out of hospital cardiac arrest' every year. Only about 40% will get CPR, which can double or triple a person's survival chances. "In an ideal world, we would all be educated on this — looking for signs and symptoms," Dr. Ernest said. "And be able to have the confidence to perform CPR on a bystander, somebody who goes down in front of you in a public place, or wherever it may be."Almost 13 years after her cardiac arrest, Ginny Curley can laugh about what happened while always advocating for the importance of CPR and heart health."My joke is that I died — because they call it cardiac death — and God and the Devil were sitting there saying, 'I don't know who gets her' and they decided to throw me back to Earth and see what I'd do with the rest of my life," she said.This year, Curley is a Woman of Impact nominee with the American Heart Association. Her goal is to raise $35,o00 by the first week of April to help all women enjoy longer, healthier lives.To support and learn more about her mission, you can click here.