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Well that was an eventful night
So there I am about half 10 last night, about to go to sleep when suddenly my sister starts screaming "Mum!!!" from her bedroom, I go out of my room, Mum runs up the stairs, i'm thinking she's had a fight with her fiance and needs some help.
Get in the bedroom, and there's my sisters fiance (James) flat out on his back on the bed, white as a sheet, and motionless. Mum gets on the bed and starts feeling for a pulse on his wrist (she used to be - and still is a registered nurse) she looks at me and says "Marie I can't find a pulse can you go and ring 999" I've got my phone in my hand so I ring and in the process of me ringing, Mum finds a very weak pulse and James starts mumbling. He was very very clammy (to the point he soaked his dressing gown in about a minute) and then he mumbles that his chest and his arm are hurting him. Im on the phone to the 999 people and they ask me a series of questions, and then say because he has chest pain they are sending someone as fast as they can. Within literally 2 minutes, (God bless the NHS) a rapid response blokey turns up at the house, the 999 people have told me to go and put the lights on downstairs, so I run downstairs to let him in. He's a first responder but is a volunteer, who is on standby and purely by chance lives in the next road. James is now a lot more with it, but says he has the chest pain still, and is still as white as a sheet. Man starts checking him over and says the paramedics are on their way, but they are in Weston (20 mins away) and that's why he has come first. After what seemed like ages, the paramedics turn up, and they take him downstairs and put him in the back of the ambulance so they can hook him up to all their machines and check him over. He's in there with my sister for about 10 mins, when she comes back in the house and says he has an irregular heartbeat and they need to take him in to get him properly checked. Cue them leaving at what is now gone midnight, with the blue lights flashing, and my Mum (who thankfully hadn't had a drink) going to the hospital in her car. I get a text message at 3am from Mum to say they are waiting for chest x rays and blood tests, and for the doctor to check them. Then I get another text at 20 past 5, to say they are all coming home. When they get here I get up to ask what they said it was, and they said that sometimes younger people can have an irregular heartbeat for no reason, but the paramedics always bring them in because if it happens with an older person then it could be serious, and they dont want to take the chance. Still no clue what caused him to stop breathing (allbeit briefly) or have the chest pains, because they are now fast asleep in bed, and I was only given the bare minimum details as they headed up the stairs. Hopefully it was just a really random one off, twas rather scary at the time though.
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blimey marie, scary indeed!
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28-12-2009, 12:05
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Sounds scary! Hope everyone is ok!
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28-12-2009, 12:50
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Scary stuff
 I had an irregular heartbeat for a while a couple of years ago. In my case they put it down to a mixture of stress and a virus that had made me very run down. It went away by itself in the end. So hope that's what happens here. Hope he feels better soon and you all get some sleep!
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28-12-2009, 13:44
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That must have been horrible for everyone involved, sounds like you did very well. I remember when I had to phone 911 when a guy had a stroke in the club I was working in and I ended up mumbling like a total tool!
Hopefully he's alright and it's just one of those awful one-off things.
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28-12-2009, 13:58
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well done Marie, it's very hard keeping your head when something like that happens. I hope he's ok, and it's just a weird one off. x
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28-12-2009, 14:25
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Wow that was eventful. Glad everythings ok, lets hope the test show what is up.
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28-12-2009, 14:41
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I can't imagine anything more frightening than the position your sister was in. I bet she feels like she nearly lost him - thank heavens and I'm glad things look like they'll be OK!
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28-12-2009, 15:14
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Sorry to hear about this, a very frightening experience
Hope things check out with the test.
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