Well Done Mrs IRC - LIfe Saver
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I was away hillwalking overnight Monday/Tuesday. On Tuesday mid morning my wife could have been anywhere. Out with the dogs. At the shops. Seeing friends. Nobody else at home.
As it happened she was a home in our semi detached. She heard a thumping sound. Then somebody somewhere shouting for help. She went into the garden at which point she realised the noise was coming from our neighbour's house. Our neighbour who is aged 70+ was shouting. Turned out he was in the house alone and had suffered a heart attack. Luckily his back door wasn't locked. My wife went in, found him, dialled 999, and tried to keep him comfortable until the ambulance arrived.
Outcome - our neighbour had a further heart attack in the ambulance. Has now had several stents fitted. Early days but things look good. Opinion of medics is that had medical attention not been recived promptly he would have more than likely have died.
Very funny thinking how little chances can have huge effects. Nobody else was around to hear him. Possibly 50:50 Mrs IRC being home at that time.
As it happened she was a home in our semi detached. She heard a thumping sound. Then somebody somewhere shouting for help. She went into the garden at which point she realised the noise was coming from our neighbour's house. Our neighbour who is aged 70+ was shouting. Turned out he was in the house alone and had suffered a heart attack. Luckily his back door wasn't locked. My wife went in, found him, dialled 999, and tried to keep him comfortable until the ambulance arrived.
Outcome - our neighbour had a further heart attack in the ambulance. Has now had several stents fitted. Early days but things look good. Opinion of medics is that had medical attention not been recived promptly he would have more than likely have died.
Very funny thinking how little chances can have huge effects. Nobody else was around to hear him. Possibly 50:50 Mrs IRC being home at that time.
Yes. She was just talking about it. The sound of someone calling for help didn't come through the shared wall. At first she couldn't figure out where it was from. It was a beautiful day and both houses had their windows open which let the sound travel. Another chance. Just in the right place at the right time.
Lucky chap; massive kudos to Mrs IRC for following up the noise and intervening so effectively. Afraid so many, these days, wouldn’t have; which is a sad indictment of my own cynicism borne of experience if not of where we’re at as a society.
Hope he makes a great recovery and they get to have a laugh and joke about it.
Hope he makes a great recovery and they get to have a laugh and joke about it.
Well done Mrs IRC for having the knowledge and confidence, I'm not sure I'd be calm enough to do it.
My O/H did though, when she worked for a local authority and a male councillor keeled over with a suspected heart attack. O/H is Scottish and can be rather forthright so I can imagine her telling the others to get out of the f
king way while she dealt with the chap.
Her CPR kept him going until an ambulance arrived and hauled him off to hospital. He survived and she and later received a civic award which embarrassed the hell out of her. When I asked whether she'd do the same for me she thought for a moment said, "Maybe..."
My O/H did though, when she worked for a local authority and a male councillor keeled over with a suspected heart attack. O/H is Scottish and can be rather forthright so I can imagine her telling the others to get out of the f
king way while she dealt with the chap. Her CPR kept him going until an ambulance arrived and hauled him off to hospital. He survived and she and later received a civic award which embarrassed the hell out of her. When I asked whether she'd do the same for me she thought for a moment said, "Maybe..."
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