According to Bruce Jenkins of the San Francisco Chronicle, Tom Tolbert was watching a late night San Francisco Giants game at his home in Alameda, Calif. when suddenly his temples started throbbing.
And then his shoulder blades too. Then his chest, then his throat. Tolbert, the Charlotte Hornets’ second-round NBA draft selection in 1988 and one of the team’s original players, went to Google to see if he was having a heart attack. When the symptoms didn’t fit, he crawled upstairs to bed with his wife, Lorrie.
“I heard this faint voice,” Lorrie Tolbert said of her husband waking her up.