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Situation: Man and wife in their early '60s, with her 93 year-old father living with them.
What happened: Just before 12:30 pm today, her father knocked on our door and when I answered he asked if I could help as his daughter had collapsed. Her husband was at work.
I grabbed my phone and called to my 16 year-old grandson to come with me just thinking that she had fainted.
We went next door into the lounge and she was slumped on the floor in a kneeling position, her body arched forward from the waist with her head nearly touching the floor. I immediately thought 'Shit! She's dead!' I phoned 999 immediately (USA 911), and the phone operator, once I had explained things, said that an ambulance was on the way. He asked if we could get her on her back, but she was in a very confined space so that was hard to do. I got another neighbour to try to help me, without much success.
Grandson raised her head and placed his hand in front of her mouth and nose - nothing, no air. He said her face was purple in part and also very pallid.
Ambulances came, and the medics spent about 45 minutes doing CPR, oxygen, adrenalin, but ultimately had to give up as there was no response whatsoever.
The Team Leader then had to explain to the 93 year-old very gently that after all their efforts, they could not save his daughter.
In the meantime, her husband had been contacted at work and he was on his way back home.
By this time myself and two neighbours were outside the house, having got out of the way of the medics as soon as they arrived.
Police were called as this was an 'unexpected death' - standard practise.
As me and my grandson were present from very near the beginning, the Policeman 'interviewed' us for a couple of minutes later to get the details of what we found, position of her body, etc..
I regret now taking my grandson into a scene where someone had died of a heart attack only a few minutes before. I didn't realise...
FUCK..................
What happened: Just before 12:30 pm today, her father knocked on our door and when I answered he asked if I could help as his daughter had collapsed. Her husband was at work.
I grabbed my phone and called to my 16 year-old grandson to come with me just thinking that she had fainted.
We went next door into the lounge and she was slumped on the floor in a kneeling position, her body arched forward from the waist with her head nearly touching the floor. I immediately thought 'Shit! She's dead!' I phoned 999 immediately (USA 911), and the phone operator, once I had explained things, said that an ambulance was on the way. He asked if we could get her on her back, but she was in a very confined space so that was hard to do. I got another neighbour to try to help me, without much success.
Grandson raised her head and placed his hand in front of her mouth and nose - nothing, no air. He said her face was purple in part and also very pallid.
Ambulances came, and the medics spent about 45 minutes doing CPR, oxygen, adrenalin, but ultimately had to give up as there was no response whatsoever.
The Team Leader then had to explain to the 93 year-old very gently that after all their efforts, they could not save his daughter.
In the meantime, her husband had been contacted at work and he was on his way back home.
By this time myself and two neighbours were outside the house, having got out of the way of the medics as soon as they arrived.
Police were called as this was an 'unexpected death' - standard practise.
As me and my grandson were present from very near the beginning, the Policeman 'interviewed' us for a couple of minutes later to get the details of what we found, position of her body, etc..
I regret now taking my grandson into a scene where someone had died of a heart attack only a few minutes before. I didn't realise...
FUCK..................