{"id":93050,"date":"2018-12-13T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T14:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050//?p=93050"},"modified":"2022-04-04T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:22:50","slug":"hospital-bed-ucf-graduation-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050//hospital-bed-ucf-graduation-ceremony/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050//","title":{"rendered":"From Hospital Bed to Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ Graduation Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sonia Cox didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u2019t feel right. There was pressure in her chest./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/n

She asked her husband, Robert, to pull the car over in a parking lot. She vomited due to the pain./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/n

Robert wasted no time and drove his wife of 26 years straight to Viera Hospital in Brevard County. Doctors told her she was having a heart attack./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201cI just started crying,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201d she says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201cI/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u2019m only 48. How can this be?/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201cWe found out it was congenital,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201d Robert adds. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201cShe/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u2019s lucky it didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u2019t happen sooner./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/n

Fast forward 369 days, and Sonia will suit up in her cap and gown Dec. 15 as one of Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u2019s 5,700 fall semester graduates./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201cI was just thinking about this the other day: A year ago, I was in a hospital, and now a year later I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u2019m getting my degree. I can/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u2019t believe it,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201d she says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201cI/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u2019m excited, happy and emotional because it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u2019s been a long road./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/93050/n