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Whats it like to be the victim of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA?)
How does it feel to die and then be brought back to life again?
When you are dead, can you see, hear or feel anything?
Can you ever be the same once you come back?
These are the questions that only a few can answer. Those who have been the victims of sudden cardiac arrest. Who have crossed the boundary between life and death and have returned. The lucky survivors.
The author is one of those survivors.
In 2018, when Paul Feeney left home to take part in a charity walking football game, he didnt know that within the next two hours he would be dead.
Collapsing during the game, he would lay motionless, with no heartbeat or brain function for over 10 minutes as his fellow players struggled to revive him, using CPR, mouth to mouth and with the aid of an Automated External Defibrilator (AED.)
Eventually, through sheer determination (and with a lot of luck) their persistence would pay off as faint life signs would be detected. They had brought him back to life.
But, his ordeal was far from over. Still largely unresponsive and with his life hanging in the balance, he would then be rushed to hospital, admitted into Intensive Care and put into an induced coma.
Examined, tested and monitored for several days, the news would then be delivered, heart bypass surgery would be required if he wished to live without fear and the risk of a further SCA. And if another did happen, then maybe next time he may not be so lucky.
Back from the Dead and Back in the Game is the authors honest and moving account of what its like to be the victim of SCA. Told in a way that lays bare his feelings and emotions, and with a sense of humour that was his way of dealing with such a traumatic and life changing event. The confusion with what had happened to him. How he faced heart surgery and the frustration of no longer physically being able to do the things that he did before.
And when the pain was over and the wounds had started to heal. How he returned back into the world again with a second chance at life, and with a determination to regain his fitness and to resume playing his beloved game of walking football.
A story that is both shocking scary and heart-warmingly inspiring, and that will bring the readers own mortality into focus, and how you can be alive and in perfect health one minute, and dead the next. All without warning, sign or symptoms.
How does it feel to die and then be brought back to life again?
When you are dead, can you see, hear or feel anything?
Can you ever be the same once you come back?
These are the questions that only a few can answer. Those who have been the victims of sudden cardiac arrest. Who have crossed the boundary between life and death and have returned. The lucky survivors.
The author is one of those survivors.
In 2018, when Paul Feeney left home to take part in a charity walking football game, he didnt know that within the next two hours he would be dead.
Collapsing during the game, he would lay motionless, with no heartbeat or brain function for over 10 minutes as his fellow players struggled to revive him, using CPR, mouth to mouth and with the aid of an Automated External Defibrilator (AED.)
Eventually, through sheer determination (and with a lot of luck) their persistence would pay off as faint life signs would be detected. They had brought him back to life.
But, his ordeal was far from over. Still largely unresponsive and with his life hanging in the balance, he would then be rushed to hospital, admitted into Intensive Care and put into an induced coma.
Examined, tested and monitored for several days, the news would then be delivered, heart bypass surgery would be required if he wished to live without fear and the risk of a further SCA. And if another did happen, then maybe next time he may not be so lucky.
Back from the Dead and Back in the Game is the authors honest and moving account of what its like to be the victim of SCA. Told in a way that lays bare his feelings and emotions, and with a sense of humour that was his way of dealing with such a traumatic and life changing event. The confusion with what had happened to him. How he faced heart surgery and the frustration of no longer physically being able to do the things that he did before.
And when the pain was over and the wounds had started to heal. How he returned back into the world again with a second chance at life, and with a determination to regain his fitness and to resume playing his beloved game of walking football.
A story that is both shocking scary and heart-warmingly inspiring, and that will bring the readers own mortality into focus, and how you can be alive and in perfect health one minute, and dead the next. All without warning, sign or symptoms.
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Back from the Dead
and Back in the Game
and Back in the Game
My Survival and Recovery from Cardiac Arrest
Paul Feeney
Copyright 2021 Paul Feeney
No part of this publication may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.
All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-9168799-1-1
Published by Close Shave Publications 2021
Foreword
T here's a popular misconception that cardiac arrest and heart attack are one and the same. They're not.
Although, both relating to the heart. Heart attacks are caused by circulatory problems (i.e. coronary arteries that become blocked, which prevent blood flow from reaching the heart,) whereas cardiac arrest is triggered by electrical problems within the heart.
A heart attack may lead to cardiac arrest if an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) occurs, as with the heart's pumping action disrupted, it is no longer able to supply blood to the brain, lungs or other organs.
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) can happen to anyone, anywhere and at any time. There is usually no prior warning, with gender, age or ethnicity not being factors. SCA's happen so quickly, that within seconds a victim will lose consciousness and have no pulse. Death will occur within minutes if no treatment is received. Literally, one minute you are alive, the next you are dead.
The survival rate for victims of sudden cardiac arrest is 8%, whereas for heart attack sufferers it is 70 to 80%.
Every victim of sudden cardiac arrest or heart attack has a different story to tell. This is mine.
Dedicated to those who formed
the links in my chain of survival.
Without whom, none of this would
have been be possible.
And once the storm is over, you
won't remember how you made it through,
how you managed to survive.
You won't even be sure, whether the
storm is really over. But one thing is certain.
When you come out of the storm , you
won't be the same person who walked in.
That's what this storm is all about.
- Haruki Murakami
Your story could be the key to unlock someone else's prison. Don't be afraid to share it.
Just Another Day
I t was late in the afternoon on Friday the 21st of September 2018, and after kissing my wife goodbye, I reversed the car from my driveway and set off on the 20 minute trip to 'The Oval', the home of Bedworth United football club.
I was on my way to meet my teammates from Birmingham Walking Football Club and to take part in a charity football game in aid of Prostate Cancer (something that I'd recently been checked for and thankfully been cleared of.)
At 6:15pm, I waited for a gap in the oncoming traffic before turning my car off the Coventry Road and into the entrance to the ground.
Then
[The Referee
I saw a player go down, so I immediately stopped the game, ran over to where he lay and put him into the recovery position.]
[Mark Gibbons: BWFC over 50's player
I was playing in a game on another pitch when I looked over and saw a group of people gathered on the next pitch. Something had happened and they looked to be in some distress, so I rushed over.
When I arrived, I could see that a player was lifeless on the ground. I turned him onto his back and proceeded to administer CPR.]
[Mark Welch: BDWF over 50's player
I heard a commotion coming from the adjoining pitch and I quickly realised that something serious had happened, so I ran to the scene to offer my help. I could see that there was a player on the ground being given CPR, and I helped by performing mouth to mouth resuscitation.]
[Dave Whatmore: BWFC Player
I had my back to the oppositions goal. Paul was playing in midfield and I noticed him rubbing his thigh. I thought that he had picked up a muscle strain or something. Then he collapsed like a ton of bricks. Everybody swarmed around him. We knew exactly what had happened but felt useless as we didn't know what to do. Looking to the sideline, I could see that my friend was making a call on his mobile. I just hoped that it was to the emergency services. My friend was an ex-professional footballer (and a manager) who I later discovered was trained in CPR and had seen this type of event before. Then, two people appeared and started administering CPR and mouth to mouth. I thought, thank God that someone knows what to do. They were quickly joined by two women, and with the increase in the number of people involved, there was a general feeling of relief that Paul was now in capable hands. But as we stood there and the minutes passed, it seemed that the CPR wasn't having any effect on Paul. It wasn't looking good. Oh my god is he going to die?
I remember being shocked as the CPR was being performed on Paul and how his body looked like a piece of meat being pounded.]
[Roy Williams: BWFC Player
We'd been playing for about twenty minutes and the game was going well. Our striker Dave Whatmore had put us three goals ahead and I'd just won the ball in midfield, when I became aware that the referee had stopped the game. Looking around for the reason, I noticed that a blue shirted player (one of ours) was lying face down on the ground, and as I quickly checked around for my teammates, I realised that it was Paul who was down. I knew that by the way he just lying there motionless, that it was serious. I could see that he had no signs of life.
As I approached Paul, he was turned over, and CPR had now started to be performed on him by a woman (who I later discovered was a nurse.) He was clearly struggling to breathe, and I could hear him making a deep snoring sound which then stopped (agonal breathing, or agonal respiration. A medical term for the gasping that people do when theyre struggling to breathe because of a cardiac arrest.)
Within a few minutes a man arrived on the scene carrying an AED (automated external defibrillator.) Paul was still receiving CPR as the man prepared the AED by removing the sticky pads from their protective packaging, and then attaching them to Paul's body.
Finally everything was ready, and everyone stood clear as Paul was shocked by the machine. But although Paul's body jumped with the shock, nothing happened. There was no response. The shock hadn't worked.
Following this shock, the AED advised that further CPR be administered as it monitored Paul for any signs of life. We just stood there looking on in dread as they worked on Paul and struggled to try and save him.
I heard someone say, It's okay, he's in good hands, he (pointing to the man who had brought the AED and was now performing CPR) is ex-military and has done this before over in Afghanistan.]
[Russell Watkin: BDWF Manager
It was clear to us all that the AED shock had done nothing, and as we stood on helpless many of the players who were gathered around just turned away with their heads in their hands.
We all thought, he's dead, there's going to be no hope of reviving him.
There were other games being played at the time, but they had all been stopped, the pitches cleared, and the matches abandoned. What had once been a busy stadium with noisy football games all taking place, had now become a hushed shell of a place with vacant pitches. All except one, where a small group of players gathered around a fellow player who lay at their feet motionless between life and death.]
[Dave Whatmore: BWFC Player
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