My ‘fit and healthy’ fiancé suffered a cardiac arrest for 70 MINUTES – it left him braindead and unable to walk
A FIT and healthy young man was declared braindead and unable to walk after suffering a 70 minute cardiac arrest.
His fiancée revealed his astonishing story, sharing pictures of his life before and after the tragedy.
The young man – his name unknown – had been in great shape just two months before, with fiancee Simo Chira posting a picture of the two of them on holiday.
She wrote on the TikTok clip: “My fiance and me two months before his cardiac arrest.
“He had 70 minutes long cardiac arrest, before the doctors got his heart beating again.
“The doctors said he would never wake up out of coma again. They even declared him braindead.”
She included videos of him in hospital attached to a machine to help him breathe and a feeding tube.
He has black eyes and is staring at the camera, before it changes to a clip of him slightly moving his legs and fingers.
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She went on: “But my fiance is not a quitter. So he proved them all wrong.
“With God’s help he fought his way back.
“He got a severe brain injury, but that was not enough to defeat him.
“He fought every day so hard, to get back home to me.
“I can’t explain how proud I am of him – after five months he came back home to me.
“I am his fulltime caregiver now. It’s so hard, but it would be harder losing him.”
The inspiring video charts his progress from bedbound and declared braindead by doctors, to home with his partner talking and walking.
She shows how hard he had to work to learn how to move and walk again.
He initially used a pully and support bars to walk with physio help, before he is seen steadily walking down a corridor without help.
Then he is filmed gingerly squatting while holding someone’s hands, before Simo is hugging him at their home.
A cardiac arrest, also known as cardiopulmonary arrest, happens when your heart suddenly stops pumping blood around your body.
Someone who has had a cardiac arrest will collapse unconscious.
Their breathing will be irregular and may stop, and they will be unresponsive.
When a cardiac arrest happens there is no time to lose, it is a life-threatening emergency, and calling an ambulance is vital.
While waiting for an ambulance performing CPR can help keep a person alive.
To perform CPR:
- Perform chest compression – pumping the heart from outside the body to keep blood flowing until the ambulance arrives
- Rescue breathing – mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to inflate the lungs
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