My Heart Beats Still: Surviving and Learning to Live Again

By Matthew Wood

Matthew Wood didn't know his phone was recording when his heart stopped beating. He found out two days later, watching the footage from a hospital bed.
On January 16, 2023--just two months after surviving a heart attack--Matt's heart stopped again. His husband, Kenyon, heard him fall, raced downstairs, called 911, and performed CPR for over five minutes. Paramedics shocked Matt's heart seven times. In his city, fewer than six percent of people survive what he survived.
My Heart Beats Still is that story--and the one underneath it--a marriage that held when everything else gave way. A man learning to live again in a body and a life that no longer felt like his own. Wood is honest about depression, PTSD, and the uneven road back. It's a story told with humor, hope, and a love that showed up exactly when it mattered. You are not just reading about a heart that stopped, but one that kept going.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMP7L81J
• ISBN13: 9798996774500
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Matthew Wood
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"