10/06/2023
A brilliant story of two police officers saving the life of a man collapsing with a cardiac arrest.
Their training kicked in however they had to go to Tesco store for a Defibrillator as their patrol cars are not equipped with such life saving equipment.
If ever there was a case for ALL Police Scotland Police Scotland Renfrewshire & Inverclyde vehicles to be equipped with AED defibrillators as standard this is the ‘business case’ and add in
Trauma first-aid - Bleed control kits to make up the package.
Absolutely outstanding lads 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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(This picture was taken after I was released from being under cardiac arrest, and proves unequivocally that not all Superheroes wear caps.) **
Last night, Diane and I had the absolute joy of meeting the two lads who saved my life less than three weeks ago.
Aidan Jenner (left) and Kyle Reid took turns performing CPR on me and latterly, applied the defibrillator 'jump start' that brought me back and kept me alive until the paramedics arrived.
Aidan, who is new to the police force, told me he was compressing my chest to such an extent, he could hear my ribs crack / break. I really feel for him, because only a week earlier he had just completed his CPR training on a dummy.
I know what you're thinking - I'm ahead of you ;) : now, he was working on a life-size (albeit mini version) dummy like me
Nothing like being thrown in at the deep end, eh?
They explained the set of coincidental circumstances that led to my survival. Had any one of the following not occurred, then I would either have been alone when I suffered the massive heart failure, or indeed have been driving through heavy rush-hour traffic.
1) Diane normally doesn't need me to pick her up from work;
2) I decided to go a run before collecting her, which meant I approached from a different direction and so collected her from within the car park;
3) Kyle and Aidan were only in the car park so Kyle could buy some food from Tesco for his evening shift snack;
4) While in Tesco, he met a friend who kept him talking five minutes - otherwise, they'd have been back out on patrol;
5) Tesco and another shop had 'public use' defibrillators readily available, which Kyle was able to collect;
6) The equally wonderful paramedics were deployed from the local ambulance station in Linwood (about a mile away) and were on hand within five minutes of the call being placed;
7) Paisley's RAH hospital (to where I was initially admitted) is also only a 5 minute, 'blue light' drive away.
All in all, I am one very lucky dude. Someone / something was working in my favour that evening for everything to align in such a manner.
But more than 'luck,' I / we owe so much to the amazing professionalism of two local policemen:
Kyle Reid and Aidan Jenner - my family and I will be eternally grateful.
THANK YOU!
**You can't see it in the picture, but I am actually standing in a big dip in the road. ;-) :-D **
(Right, please bear with me - just one more update to go, then it's back to the usual drivel.) :-D
- Colin Jackson (pictured)
*Had to copy paste Colin's post as it wouldn't let me share*
