After about 10 minutes, Connor went inside to scope out dinner.

About a minute later, they looked to see what Brock was doing, sensing something wasn't right.

Brock appeared to start convulsing then started screaming and shaking uncontrollable in a full seizure.

Yelling for Connor to dial 9-1-1, Smitty tried to restrain Brock enough to get him into the car for a race to the hospital about four miles away.

"We didn't know how long we had, and we didn't want to wait for an ambulance to get up here," he said, pointing to the steep driveway to their home overlooking Hurricane Mountain.

LIFEFLIGHT

The stabilization effort continued at Elizabethtown Community Hospital where Brock was quickly connected to monitors.

"He was in tachycardia, he "flat-lined" at the hospital," Smitty said, "they threw us out of the room."

Hospital medical director Dr. Rob DeMuro gave Brock a shot of medicine to jumpstart a heartbeat, which then, by some miracle, "self corrected," Smitty said.

Within minutes, a state police helicopter landed at the school soccer field to take Brock to Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington.

"After four or five hours, he came around," Smitty said.

The large extended family had gathered awaiting news.

And it was tough to hear.

SCAR TISSUE

An echocardiogram showed Brock has an enlarged heart, a genetic condition called dilated cardiomyopathy, which results in about 10,000 deaths from cardiac arrest across the nation every year.