ORANGE, Calif.—A man who received a second chance at life played his favorite sport March 31 with the cardiologist who performed his life-saving procedure. In late 2020, Anaheim resident Manh Nguyen, 64, began to feel fatigue, shortness of breath, and pressure in his chest and stomach. Believing he had contracted COVID-19, Manh took a test, which returned negative. Puzzled at what was wrong with him, Nguyen sought help at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, California, where doctors performed a variety of tests. After testing his heart function with an electrocardiogram, doctors discovered he had suffered a heart attack and that his heart was working around one-third—or less—of its normal function due to blocked blood vessels. Nguyen’s heart function was so weak that he would not have been able to survive a bypass surgery, according to Providence St. Joseph Hospital cardiologist Dr. Michael Chan, who determined that Nguyen would be …