He is my whole heart and when his stopped, I performed CPR for 14 minutes until help arrived
My memory of that night is as if I was floating above us. My hands on his chest. Kneeling on the floor in my underwear and a T-shirt. My pale legs. His face.“Run down and unlock the door and come back,” she said. I did. I came back up. I kept going.The next day the nurse said I did CPR for 14 minutes. I would have said it was five minutes if you asked me.
Then they cleared me out as well. For which I am now exceedingly grateful, because every image of every moment of that night is burned in my brain, I assume for life. I followed the ambulance in my car slowly and carefully, terrified I might slide on the unplowed road and not be with him. Weeks later I finally had the courage to Google the statistics. Only about 10 per cent of people who suffer from cardiac arrest survive, and the rate is even lower for in-home cardiac arrests.
A week of tests and investigation revealed his cardiac arrest had no clear cause. He is young and physically in great health. It is rare, but sometimes the heart just stops. Electrical problems are what they call it in the cardiac care unit. To protect him, should this ever happen again, he now has an internal defibrillator that is like a pacemaker but stays on standby.
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