Hey everyone!!!
It's been a long time since I have been on here!
Still see a lot of familiar faces, and some new ones!
Lot has happened over the last couple years.
I suffered sudden cardiac arrest, and collapsed on my bathroom floor in December of 23. My daughter was home from college and was awake.
She heard me fall, got her mother up.
I was on my bathroom floor, eyes open, lips turning blue.
Maddie did 10 minutes of CPR while they waited for EMS to arrive.
EMS came, and gave me the shock that started my heart.
I was fortunate. Out of hospital SCA kills 90% of its victims. I now have an implanted cardiac defibrillator that protects me. I was clinically dead for 14 minutes.....
To survive with full cognitive function is around 5-6%.
Forever grateful for my family that morning.
Please learn CPR. Someone you love dearly may depend on it!!
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Welcome back, we are grateful everything worked out. Enjoy your season!
Hope you have a bountiful Spring sir! Welcome back!
Welcome back and glad you made it bro. Go Wildcats Z
Welcome back and thank you for the advice
Welcome back and great advice... Prayers
Scary stuff, I'm glad that it worked out well.
Your a fortune man to have trained people so close.
Welcome back our OG brother. :jesus-cross:
Tough deal, welcome back man
I am thankful to the Lord that you are ok! Clearly you have a wonderful family who fought to keep you here. Family is a precious thing.
Welcome back to our turkey family!
Welcome back. Glad to hear you had a successful recovery
Welcome Back!!!
Glad you are still around; no one is promised tomorrow.
Wow, that's a way to take time off.
From what I remember you only had 5-6% cognitive function to begin with so how could they tell? (I was always jealous because yours was four or five percent more than mine.)
I had learned CPR back in the 80's and saved two lives with it but had not used it in many years, when I joined the Firehouse down the road as a part of the then "Women's" auxiliary I learned that they have changed how they do it now, when I learned it they had you arch the next and lift the chin but that is a major NO-NO now. I was set to go learn it the new way but ended up with a case of the back door trots so now I am waiting for them to offer it again. I am not honestly sure how much of it I can do physically anymore, but I figure I can talk a able bodied person through it if I know the proper technique.
I am glad to hear you made it.
Thank the Lord you were given the chance to go out and hear one gobble one more time !!!
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Glad to hear you are still with us!! As a retired fire department Lieutenant and EMT, I would concur on your stats. You sir are lucky to be alive. Good luck this spring!!