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Fallbrook Pop Warner football mom Tamae Toombs, 39, stopped at a grocery store in Oceanside to pick up fresh fruit as a snack for her son’s team, which was playing a game at El Camino High School on Saturday, October 18, when she suffered a massive heart attack and collapsed.

“At first they thought she was having a seizure,” said her husband, Rick Toombs. After being transported to Tri City Hospital, it was determined that Tamae had suffered a heart attack.

Since that time, Tamae has remained hospitalized in a coma, unresponsive. Doctors have told Rick that, following the heart atta...