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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tahitian_Red on June 11, 2013, 09:27:32 am
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Well I almost took the long walk down the dark tunnel, towards the bright light. :(
I was playing basketball Thursday night and hit the floor, when my heart stopped. I am the luckiest man in the world, because someone on the other team was an Emergency Medical Technician and there was a medical doctor standing just outside the gym. It really opens your eyes (no pun intended). I had to have a couple stints inserted in some clogged arteries and have several medications swimming around in my blood system now, but I'm glad to still be here.
Two months ago I was playing basketball and a 24yo collapsed during our game, it took 4-5 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. He did not make it. Just those few minutes made the difference for me.
Believe me the air smells sweeter and loved ones are even more precious today.
:)
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Wow, glad to hear you are okay.
Some times it makes no difference to the outcome but in these situations early intervention can seriously be the difference between life and death. I've been a first aid officer for 14 years now and the more people that can provide early emergency assistance the better.
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Crickey! Lucky break eh, make the most of it ;D
Cheers,
Steve
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Crickey! Lucky break eh, make the most of it ;D
Cheers,
Steve
I agree, good news. As the saying goes, take time to smell the roses!
cheers pancho.
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A close call there, Mr Red!
Good to hear you're still with us... I'd say something like "make every day count", but it's clear you've already figured that out yourself. Probably a damn good reminder for the rest of us, though.
:)
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a first aid officer for 14 years now and the more people that can provide early emergency assistance the better.
Always amazed at the amount of grand parents who have no training in first aid. As a generation that have become babysitters there maybe a situation of devastation on the day they may need it on there own grandkids.
WOW scary, glad you still walking/breathing Tahitian Red 8)
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Wow, Jay......You're the luckiest guy to have those two medical professionals right there on the spot. A few years ago I was playing veterans rugby when a scrum collapsed. Everyone got up except for one guy from the opposing team whom everyone thought was taking the opportunity for a rest....that's how relaxed he looked. When he hadn't got up after a few seconds we found him to be not breathing and fast turning blue. Almost as soon as we realised that all wasn't well a player on my team started CPR and like your situation, we were lucky to have a surgeon on the sideline waiting to go on as a replacement player who joined in a team effort to try and get his heart ticking again. Thankfully they managed to get the poor buggers heart working again and to keep him stable until the Paramedics and ambulance arrived. After a quadruple bypass the player actually returned to play rugby again the following year.
After experiencing my own close call last year I couldn't agree more that once we get through the drama, the air does indeed smell better and the things and people we once took for granted are now the centre of our existence. Get well quickly my friend, I want to see you race the shit out of that RT1 ;D.
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Did you buy a lotto ticket?, man that basketball is dangerous game!!! I think I'll stick to racing. Good to hear your on the road back, but isn't funny how it always takes a scare to make us look around to see what was always there and to appreciate it ;D every day above ground is a great one, you got plenty left in ya Red.
Cheers
Bret
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Really pleased you made it red :) but not half as pleased as you or your family must be. Man you are obviously one of the good guys and I cant imagine how frightening that experience must have been .
I have always lived for the day and by the theory lifes not a practice ;D but since I had a self induced moment at CD8 I've become all careful and boring as batshit ::)
Your incident was the wake up I needed :) fork tomorrow you gotta live for today , we are fragile beings no matter how hard the shell .
Wishing you a speedy recovery and im sure your good for many VMX and basketball seasons to come yet my friend :)
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Yes, lifes too short, glad you made it, obviously the DT1 God was looking after you, they seem to be everywhere, hope you make a speedy recovery and as Firko say's, race the shit out of those bikes.
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Shit Red, that was a close one.
I am pleased you made it mate.
Without wanting to generate melancholy, I think the events of the last few years; with the pasing and near passing of some of my VMX mates, has reinforced the "get out there and do it" spirit for me.
We all have excuses for not getting off our butts and going riding/racing,but the opportunity will be gone before we know it.
I trust that your recovery goes well mate.
Cheers
Craig
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Glad you made it back Red. Life is indeed short, and these sort of events kind of reset our way of looking at life and make us realise just what is important.
Reds experience should prompt us all to to get a check up, just because you feel well, doesn't mean you are well.
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Hey Red, with all that equipment in your shed you can't check out yet.
Get well soon.
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Wow Red that was a close call , I think luck plays a major part in these things . Mine was the same just lucky . Ambo was in my street and Hospital only 1.5 klicks away . Good to hear your ready to play again and like TM Bill Ive got a lot slower ( enough from the stalls about being slow to start with ) . Iain
God or the Devil must look after old Yamaha riders .
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You certainly are lucky,
Second benifit of the artery stents, they should help reduce your Arm Pump.
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Bloody hell mate. Close call. Hope you mend well.
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Hope you are fighting fit soon enough. Get well soon! Thanks for the wake up call too.
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First day back from leave yesterday had a 52 year old bloke suffer a cardiac arrest in the back of my ambulance. One shock and a bit of CPR and he was back talking to us. He asked what happened and I explained diplomatically that he had diedfor a couple of minutes. First thing he said was to apologise ! I kid you not. J PS well done on surviving yourself T Man look after yourself and look forward to your ongoing contributions on here.
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My 93 year old mum's currently in a private rehab hospital getting a bit of a tune up. While I was visiting her today I looked at the activity board and noticed that next Monday they're having a CPR demo class for the old inmates. With Reds situation fresh on my mind I asked the administration clerk if I could "sit in" on the class and she said that I was not only welcome to sit in and watch my mum, she signed me up to do the class. I understand that it's not the full St Johns certificate course but if I learn enough to help keep some poor bastard alive until someone who knows his shit like Jerry with a Packer Wacker turns up it'll be worth my spending a couple of hours learning the basics.
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That's the go Firko, how's the " Madamme Barista del a Firko" coming along.....she's not giving the nurses too hard a time I hope.
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That's the go Firko, how's the " Madamme Barista del a Firko" coming along.....she's not giving the nurses too hard a time I hope
I've gotta give it to the old duck, she won a watch in the Trivia contest yesterday, won a box of Whittakers chocolates at Bingo today and tomorrow she's giving the other old patients a talk on her travels around the world back in the 60's and 70's. I take little Reggie along to see her every day and she and the little fella have become quite the hits of the place. One of the nurses takes Reg around the rooms to visit old dears that are bed ridden. She lifts him up onto their beds and the little bloke gives 'em a lick on the hand or face and both he and the old dears love it. Mum's doing fine, is doing aquarobics in the pool in the morning and gym work in the arvo but having a great old whinge about the shit food and not being able to get a decent cup of coffee. The Capuchino machine I gave her for Mothers Day has spoiled her forever ;D. One good thing is that she gets a glass of Sauvignon Blanc with lunch and dinner. They can have her for as long as they like but it looks like she'll be home next week :-\.
How are you travelling John boy? The lady in the bed next to mum broke both of her hips and a femur when she fell of a balcony at her daughters place when the railing let go. Like you she's lucky as shit and is now, a week after her surgery walking up and down the place with her walking frame.
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I'm getting better every day Mark, hobbling around on crutches, I will probably be off work for another month or so but I'm not in a hurry....my boys have taken over the workshop so at the moment I'm quite happy to sit back and get fit and healthy again and then ill re-assess things after that. I'm definitely going to smell the roses more though.
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Note to self. Start hanging out with doctors and paramedic types ;D
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Glad to hear you're ok, just goes to show that you never know whats around the corner.
Had a bit of drama with the old man on the weekend. He had a trip to the hospital on Monday in an ambulance after after difficulty breathing. They checked him out, found an irregular heart beat and where admitting him. He then convinced them to let him go home as he had to pack 3 dozen orchids (he grows them commercially) to have them ready for the courier that afternoon. So mum picked him up, he went home and they packed the orchids and then mum takes him back to the hospital to be admitted. He's back home and everything is ok, but what the .... ::)
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when she fell of a balcony at her daughters place when the railing let go.
Is this a Sydney thing? ???
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Welcome back Tahitian. As has already been said you're one lucky dude to have assistance near-by.
That makes me wonder how many VMXers are trained in CPR. I know we have a heap of brain surgeons in our midst :D
On the other hand I wouldn't want Brad to give me mouth to mouth. :D :D :D
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Sounds like you nearly did the ‘Big End’
Glad you were able to keep it rubber side down Red.
Don’t slow up to smell the roses, just keep it pinned
My brother had some stints put in many years back, reckons he felt turbocharged afterwards as his heart didn’t have to work so hard after the hydraulic lines were cleared.
Note to self. Start hanging out with doctors and paramedic types ;D
Note to self; careful how much shit I hang on paramedic types :D
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Welcome back Tahitian. As has already been said you're one lucky dude to have assistance near-by.
That makes me wonder how many VMXers are trained in CPR. I know we have a heap of brain surgeons in our midst :D
On the other hand I wouldn't want Brad to give me mouth to mouth. :D :D :D
Sorry mate but if you need it from me, you ain't gunna make it ;D
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Sounds like the Lone Ranger when he got bit on the bum by a rattler.....Tonto wasn't goin' there. :D
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Stents guys, stents.. my old man has 5 of them! great little invention.
guy down the corner had a turn and they slipped a stent into a small restriction in his main artery.
turns out he had a car crash 50 years ago and the steering wheel whacked him in the chest, left a little dint in his artery..... amazing what can bite years later.
another old mate was feeling second hand and went to the quacks, breathless after a short walk etc. Quack says "I've booked you into a stress test, we will find out whats wrong"
The test was cancelled at the last minute but he was still feeling crook so he went to casualty. the doc on shift took one look at him, whistled up an ambo and rushed him to melb for a quadruple bypass!!
This is a man who doesn't drink or smoke (is a diabetic though) he was very lucky, the Stress Test would have killed him stone dead.
One thing about life... no one gets out alive... ;D :D
any sign of the almighty while you were over there??
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Note to self. Start hanging out with doctors and paramedic types ;D
My wife's a E.D. nurse, If I keeled over she'd just look down at me and mutter "Die ya barstard..."
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One thing about life... no one gets out alive... ;D :D
any sign of the almighty while you were over there??
Maybe I wasn't gone long enough, but I got nothing. No "Go back!" or "Come to the light", no out of body experience or long dark tunnels. Just have a pain in my sternum from all the pumping and a desire to live life a little fuller and healthier.
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Here's an idea that would make Jerry and I very happy.
While we both come from a different part of the emergency services spectrum we both have training (Jerry far more than me) to hopefully make a difference to the outcome of people who we encounter in our downtime who have suffered a cardiac event, and other emergencies.
It's great to hear that TR has survived a near death situation but how about all of you take heed of what has happened and rather being one of the useless sods who stand and watch a persons life ebb away take the step to become PROFICIENT in first aid. It may be wonderful for you that Jerry for example may be able to keep your blood pumping pending arrival of his Ambo mates but what if the boot was on the other foot.
How about every contributor to this thread get back on here to say they have, as a result of TR's good fortune, put their money on the fridge and received First Aid training - good if you are out on the trails too !
While we're at it how many of you donate blood ?
Cheers guys and good to hear you survived TR !
Dave Mac :)
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This thread should be called LIVE MAN STILL KICKING ;D My old man had a heart attack a few years back. As we live in a country town the local hospital thought it best they fly him by helicopter to Sydney. When my Dad was a young bloke he was stuck in a lift for 5 hours so he hates lifts & flying. You guessed it the day of his heart attack they put him in the lift to take down to the helicopter pad. Just before they wheeled him down the corridor of the hospital he called out to me. Garry he said I said yes Dad as I lent down to hear what he was going to say. Some last minute father to son talk. No not my old man he grabbed my shirt with his fist and most the hairs on my chest and said I want a bloody cardboard coffin don,t waste your money.With that they wheeled him away. I had dinner with him tonight ;D All the best mate keep on riding. Jimson
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Just have a pain in my sternum from all the pumping and a desire to live life a little fuller and healthier.
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thank your luck stars its your Sternum! :D :D ive heard some pretty funny ER stories....
Ive completed and had level 2 1st aid tickets since the early 90's (mining business) but im out of ticketed time now (was in management!!) now unemployed o I might sign up for a refresher as the process is now continually refined thanks to real life tests like TR's and each new bit of info works its way into the system so its worthwhile.
The best bonus and I guess I was always lucky was that each course was always taken by a cutie pie which ensured a 100% roll up for every session. Unfortunately they would always make us use the dummy!! 8)
Yes so as Dave Mac says, if you haven't taken a 1st aid course b4, get one under your belt asap as it will give you the clarity in a bad situation to make some real judgement on wether to let them die or try and help :D :D
im sure weve all heard about the bloke being electrocuted by the power pole and ol mate whacks him with a 4x2 to "break contact"
a first aider would ask first....