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the shortness of life and the unrelenting human spirit

This was emailed to me today from a close friend back home in Rochester who fought with death square in the face.

 

“I was waiting for my food with MJ when this guy came in with one leg. When he came in he was at the counter when he took two breaths and hit the floor. I attended to him when he fell and he was not breathing nor did he have a pulse. So I told the cook to call 911 and I started to do CPR and rescue breathing, for about 7 minutes until the ambulance arrived.. Everyone was watching me do this I had to rip off his shirt and put some wrap around his mouth so I would not get anything, and did CPR. When the ambulance arrived I was still going and he said keep it up your doing a good job, then they attached the AED which I put on, and we looked at the heart rate, which was flat. We shocked him and nothing, and I continued CPR again and we shocked again and got a heart beat. They loaded him on the board and he went into arrest again and so we shocked him again and got it going again. I received a call yesterday afternoon from his son who is a trooper and he told me that he passed away in the morning but made it through the night and he was able to see him before he passed. It was exciting for me being this was the first time I ever performed it, it all came back to me when I was doing it. Just thought I would let you know.”

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