A man whose heart stopped beating for 50 minutes in 2021 has recently visited the High Wycombe paramedics who saved his life.
John Freeman, along with his wife Yvonne and two daughters, Sabrina and Natalie, attended the town’s South Central Ambulance Service's Resource Centre on February 9 to meet with some of the team who kept him alive in June of that year.
The staff members in Julia, Charlie, and Luke were delighted to see the Freeman family again in much happier circumstances.
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Yvonne said: “The SCAS ambulance team, along with Thames Valley Air Ambulance, worked tirelessly to restart John’s heart after his cardiac arrest and kept him stable enough for the journey to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
“We understand his ‘downtime’ was 50 minutes so we are absolutely amazed by his recovery.
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"He had a staged return to work in 2022 and was able to return full-time in August, following a family holiday in Florida.
“It was absolutely wonderful to meet up again with Julia, Charlie and Luke – they are amazing superheroes.”
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