Blatantly posting for traffic. NC for this to protect privacy. My daughters best friends Dad went into Cardiac arrest a week ago, due to a heart attack involving 3 blocked arteries. The older brother witnessed his collapse at midnight last Monday, and performed CPR. It was only 30 minutes between him calling an ambulance and getting into PPCI and had been brought back by the paramedics. He was sedated, and every time they’ve tried to wake him up his blood pressure has gone sky high and they’ve had to put him under again. A CT scan didn’t show anything worrying from the lack of oxygen, and he had begun responding and opening his eyes.
Today they put him on a ventilator, he has a lung infection. My DD’s friend is confiding everything, which is fine. The thing that makes this even more awful is they lost the mum to secondary bc a couple of years ago 😞. My heart is breaking for them, and I am petrified he’s not going to make it. I know the stats for out of hospital cardiac arrests, and my mind is going crazy thinking of this family going through this.
Of relevance is that DD is very close to her friend, pretty much over-reliant if I’m honest. My DD has severe anxiety and me and this girl are her world. Added to this is the fact that I had a heart attack in 2019 and it feels horrifically close. I had 10 minutes of the same pains as before, and I was too scared to tell anyone because of what it might do to my daughter.
I’m fucking petrified for all of us. Be kind and help me calm down please 😕🙁😖