A footballer has told how his girlfriend saved his life when he had a sudden heart attack in bed. Adam Dodd and his club, FC United of Manchester, shared his story to raise awareness of the crucial importance of CPR.
Dodd, 29, told how he went to bed as normal on June 3 but his girlfriend woke suddenly a couple of hours later 'to the sounds of me in cardiac arrest'. "My heart had stopped and I was dying," said the semi-professional footballer, a plumber by trade. "Luckily, she heard my gasping and called 999 and performed CPR until the ambulance arrived 16 minutes later.
If I hadn't received this CPR I would have died or would be brain dead. The chances of surviving an out of hospital cardiac arrest are 3 per cent. READ MORE: Plans for HS2 on the cheap threaten to turn swathes of Manchester into a building site and botch a once in a lifetime opportunity "When the ambulance arrived, they shocked me with a defibrillator and it took a few attempts to get my pulse back.
I was taken to Blackpool Hospital and put on the intensive care ward in an induced coma where I remained for four days. "They were worried about brain damage and didn't know if I would wake up.
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