04/09/2025
The importance of AED's cannot be overstated!
🤯🫀"While we were filming Better Call Saul, I had a heart attack. I collapsed, my skin turned gray, and for several minutes, I basically wasn't here. If I had gone to my trailer, I probably wouldn't be telling this story because no one would have found me in time.
"I was lucky that my colleagues were nearby: they held my head, started screaming for help, and thanks to Rosa Estrada—our medical officer, with a background in the military—I received immediate CPR. My ribs were broken, but my life was saved. It took more than 15 minutes of compressions and assisted breathing until the defibrillator arrived. It took three shocks to get my heart to respond. Imagine how terrifying it was for everyone there: the machine counted loudly, announced there was no pulse, and warned everyone to move away before the shock. Every attempt seemed final, as if there was no turning back.
"When I finally woke up in the hospital, I couldn't remember a thing. It was as if an entire day had been erased from my life. And yet, when I came to, something had profoundly changed. For weeks, I wasn't burdened with the usual worries, that inner voice always telling me who I should help, what I should worry about, what could go wrong. None of that was there. Everything I saw was beautiful: a ray of sunshine, the grass, the laughter of my friends, the opportunity to continue working on something I love. The world seemed like a miracle. That feeling stayed with me for months. It taught me that, even amid fear and fragility, life can be an incredible gift."
🌍❤️ Bob Odenkirk, on the heart attack that nearly took his life and how it transformed him into a new way of seeing the world.
