Her Husband's Heart Quit on Him, But She Didn't

By Alison Connell, Los Angeles Times

CPR kept her husband alive after suffering sudden cardiac arrest, but he hasn't been the same since.

My husband left me.  He didn't mean to, but he did.

The day before my son's birthday, he was just gone. Lying on the couch, he looked like he was crying, and foam was coming out of his mouth. I thought he was having a seizure. I wasn't sure. I panicked. But I am a volunteer trained to react in an emergency, and having my husband not respond to me caused a switch to throw. I did the chest rub, I called 911. I threw him onto the floor of the living room. I did CPR as hard and as fast as I could.

I waited, for what seemed like an eternity, for the saviors to come.

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