I’m visiting my mum.
Spring might be around the corner but judging by the state of lawns (and Midland Park) there’s been a bit of rain here in Wellington …
Nice to see The Dominion Post delivery team knows how to deal with it. To be fair: That’s just dew on the newspaper delivery bag — “100% Degradable” (aren’t we all darlink?)
– P
I’m interested in the article headlined “Back From The Dead” 😉 What happened?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7562484/Man-presumed-dead-is-very-much-alive
Man presumed dead is very much alive
KAT PICKFORD
Last updated 12:06 28/08/2012
A Marlborough woman says doctors have not been able to explain how her father came back to life after he was taken to hospital on Saturday, presumed dead.
After what has been an “emotional roller coaster” of a weekend, Robyn Thomson is praising the St John Ambulance crew who “fought and fought and didn’t give up” on her father, even when they thought he was dead.
Thomson said she had been in Blenheim and just arrived home to Renwick about 12.15pm when her 82-year-old father Keith Brown collapsed from a massive heart attack.
Thomson dialled 111 and was directed by the operator to administer chest compressions.
“I’ve never done any first aid so would never have known what to do if it wasn’t for the operator telling me, he was brilliant.”
The ambulance arrived 11 minutes after the call was made and the crew took over from Thomson, using a defibrillator for about half an hour as they tried to re-start Mr Brown’s heart.
By this stage her husband Nick Thomson had returned home and was with Robyn Thomson when the paramedics told them Brown had died.
But the paramedics also told the couple they were getting some unusual signals from the defibrillator and wanted to take Mr Brown to Wairau Hospital, in Blenheim, to get a second opinion from a doctor, she said.
Fifteen minutes later, after they had already called their family to tell them Brown had died, they got a phone call from paramedics saying he had revived.