Rob Czar was a dead man.
No, there wasn’t a bounty on his head or anything like that — at least not in any Wild West sense. In spring 2019, following two months of medical issues, he suffered a massive heart attack 24 hours after being discharged from a six-day stint in the hospital.
According to Czar’s wife, Corinne Leigh, who administered CPR on his lifeless body until firefighters arrived, her husband was without pulse or breath for nearly half an hour. Miraculously, she continues, “the West Asheville Fire Department was able to bring him back to life.”
Diagnosed with granulomatosis with polyangiitis, a rare autoimmune disorder, Czar quarantined for almost a full year before the COVID-19 pandemic sent the rest of the population into shelter-at-home mode. In addition to making new DIY and craft videos for the couple’s ThreadBanger YouTube channel, which has nearly 4…
