Vashner
01-26-2006, 06:37 PM
I didn't know Colleen Derk had a heart attack. She's a sweetheart.
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=39EFD749-A97B-4D4B-9504-B430841BEA15
For 21 years, he was the man who brought the Spurs Coyote to life. Then Tim Derk suffered a stroke.
Now he’s talking to News 4 WOAI about finding his wife on the floor - without a pulse. And he's hoping you can learn from their problems. In Beamer's World.
“I heard a small thump, it wasn't real loud in the bathroom, but it was enough to make me think, I better investigate,” says Derk, “There was Colleen [my wife] on the floor without a pulse. Sudden cardiac arrest.”
It was Colleen’s heart attack on December 5, 2005 that forced the Derks to reverse roles. Two years ago, she found him after he suffered a stroke; now it was his turn to save her life.
“[We] called EMS right away and they were here within three minutes,” says Colleen. “[We] went to the hospital. [I] was unconscious for a couple a days."
While Colleen is recovering just fine, their whole family is learning CPR. That's a life-saver Tim did not know when he found Colleen that morning.
“In the time after I called 9-1-1 until the paramedics arrived I could have been doing C.P.R,” says Tim. “I found out today how to do it, how simple it is, and I sure should have been doing it at that time.”
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=39EFD749-A97B-4D4B-9504-B430841BEA15
For 21 years, he was the man who brought the Spurs Coyote to life. Then Tim Derk suffered a stroke.
Now he’s talking to News 4 WOAI about finding his wife on the floor - without a pulse. And he's hoping you can learn from their problems. In Beamer's World.
“I heard a small thump, it wasn't real loud in the bathroom, but it was enough to make me think, I better investigate,” says Derk, “There was Colleen [my wife] on the floor without a pulse. Sudden cardiac arrest.”
It was Colleen’s heart attack on December 5, 2005 that forced the Derks to reverse roles. Two years ago, she found him after he suffered a stroke; now it was his turn to save her life.
“[We] called EMS right away and they were here within three minutes,” says Colleen. “[We] went to the hospital. [I] was unconscious for a couple a days."
While Colleen is recovering just fine, their whole family is learning CPR. That's a life-saver Tim did not know when he found Colleen that morning.
“In the time after I called 9-1-1 until the paramedics arrived I could have been doing C.P.R,” says Tim. “I found out today how to do it, how simple it is, and I sure should have been doing it at that time.”