Thumbs up to Lakeport Fire Department
A great thumbs up to our Lakeport Fire Department, its Chief and its employees.
I have had two major total death experiences in the last 6 years. The first one was when I was at Subway eating, getting ready to leave and had a major stroke. Our EMTs were in the CVS parking lot, my wife hollered at them and they came and took me to Lakeside. They kept me alive on the way there and then after a period of time in the emergency room I was paralyzed totally on the left hand side and floated in space and could touch the stars and clouds, and believe me I saw the light. When the doctor was finished working on me in the emergency room they put me in a bed, where I woke up, opened my eyes and saw a clock on the wall, it was 4:00 a.m. That was the first time I came back to life since I was hauled to the emergency room which was approximately 6:30 p.m.
When I opened my eyes a nurse told me Mr. Rose I believe the doctor will let you go home today. I have been monitoring you all night and you are doing very good, the doctor will be here around 6:30 a.m. to check you out and I believe he will let you go home.
I thought to myself that is great and found that I had movement in my left toes and feet, my fingers and movement in my left arm. Low and behold the man upstairs said it was not my time.
I came home and have been fine all this time.
The most recent time this came about was approximately 5-6 weeks ago. I was at a local gym exercising I got too hot, started to get dizzy and the trainer that was helping me exercise said to sit right here on the corner of one of the seats of the exercise unit. The trainer asked is there anything I can get you, I asked for a drink of water. He walked about 10ft to the water cooler, brought back a cup of water and I drank a couple swallows of water gave him back the cup and that was the last thing I remember.
I found out later that I passed out, fell over on the floor and the trainer called 911. Then he called my daughter, she called my wife, it took the fire department 10 minutes working on me, shocking me to get a pulse and a heart beat. That was EMTs Dan Kane, Jody Snyder and Bergum, they saved my life and I guarantee you that they saved many lives in the past and will do so in the future.
These are very efficient individuals and we take these people for granted on a daily basis. Believe me they are the best! How fortunate our Lakeport community is to have these employees save lives on a daily basis.
I would like to give them A BIG THUMBS UP! They work every day and night, 7 days a week and we as local people, are lucky to have these people in our community. I want to thank them as I am still here because they kept me away from my good old friend Steve Astrada, the owner of the local mortuary, he always shakes hands with me when I see him and checks my pulse. I tell him “don’t call me, my wife will call you.” It is great to have good friends. But I am fine, though not as young as I used to be…
Thank you Lakeport Fire Department and EMTs
Ron Rose, Lakeport
