RTÉ presenter Michael Lyster has detailed how the first aid training of his wife Ann combined with a moment of chance to save his life following a cardiac arrest.
Speaking to the Sunday World, Lyster explained that he been out playing golf with a friend, Vincent Hogan, and after being dropped off at home realised that he had left his phone in Hogan's car. The 61-year-old made a quick call and Hogan agreed to return with the phone.
Lyster takes up the story.
I remember walking towards the front door and opening it and that is all I remember. I was down on the floor when Vincent [Hogan] arrived and I remember nothing until I started to come to in the hospital.
Over the past few days I have slowly been able to piece it together. What had happened was that Vincent saw me on the floor and he immediately called up the stairs for my wife Ann while he phoned the ambulance.
Ann has had first aid training so she started doing CPR on me and was talking to the guys in the ambulance as they made their way to us.
Lyster praised the calmness of his wife and also brought up the possibility that if he had not forgotten his phone, then he could have died.
She just went into action. Vincent called the ambulance and the crew talked them through what to do. Ann has had first aid training, as have I,so that was the key to it.
There is no question about it but I was dying. Had I not forgotten the phone in the first place I would have died downstairs with everyone in bed.
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