I'm in Chula Vista.
In a house or an apartment?
It's a house. He may be having a heart attack or a stroke.
I already have the paramedics on the way as I'm talking to you.
I'm gone, I'm no longer here. So...
I felt like he was gone. Like I had lost my husband,
like how did this day turn into this?
I'm gonna pull up right now.
I was like, Oh my gosh,
my husband is dead.
No pulse.
All of a sudden they were shocking him.
I just remember them counting the shots.
And I believe he got up to like the fifth shot.
Because it's been so long. Oh my God, what does this mean?
His words, brain damage.
And when I know my husband is a fighter.
He's had a motorcycle accident a couple years prior.
I'm just so thankful that we ended up at Sharp Chula Vista.
I think that that's great.
He was going to get the best care.
He had a heartbeat, but that was the extent of it.
No response whatsoever.
The emergency team takes over or stabilizing him from head to toe.
No breathing.
I've got a good pulse.
What can we do to try and give them the best chance of
regaining his neurological and brain function and you know,
walking out of this hospital. Some don't ever move,
talk, communicate, see, hear again.
Fortunately, we have the ability to do something called targeted
temperature management or therapeutic hypothermia.
At Sharp, we call it code ice,
which essentially is cooling his body quickly down to a
certain temperature range to try and give him the best shot
of recovering neurologically.
It slows down the brain's oxygen, demand,
inflammation and chemical processes. Okay.
Let's hook the pads up.
We're connected. Let's start cooling.
Baby, I love you.
I'm going to be here when you wake up.
We going to get through this.
We will get through this together.
From the emergency room, we went to the ICU.
Anything that he needed, they were there.
He was on full life support. But it just, man,
it felt like my husband is not here anymore.
My role was to continue throughout and monitored,
especially within that 24 hour period,
which is by far the most important,
we want to maintain a goal temperature and we go through all
the important aspects of what's going on inside the body.
They did a good job of resuscitation CPR before we're
starting to treat him.
So when all that lines up,
we have a good opportunity to have good recovery.
And then there's a process of reversing,
the cold ice and that's like 18 hours, you know?
So its all incremental.
We start to rewarm the body,
in a manner that is gentle.
You're literally watching your loved one thaw.
The moment it's coming it's here. Gosh, what if he,
what if he doesn't respond? What if he doesn't?
What if he stays like this?
Alright Leo,
it's time to wake up Leo time to wake up, time to wake up Leo.
It's time to wake up now.
I knew coming in the next day that I was going to be happy to
see him wake up.
And we were all ecstatic to see that.
It was a lot, you know,
to wake up in a hospital bed.
Yeah, it's humbling.
I still have a partner.
He's still here.
How are you doing?
Good, good.
You got that tube out. Huh? Breathing on your own.
How you doing Sam?
Much, much better.
He had cardiac arrest of unknown reversible causes.
We call it idiopathic, for no reason.
A defibrillator is this device and it'll sit underneath
your skin right here and we'll watch your rhythms 24/7.
If you have a cardiac arrest again,
where your heart is going so fast,
it'll shock within seconds and then keep shocking.
With this age of WiFi and internet,
rather than checking the device
every three months in the clinic,
I can know the status of Leo's device every day.
We're giving them the best opportunity to survive.
It definitely has made us stronger and we definitely have a greater
love and appreciation for each other.
I feel 100%.
I mean, I definitely feel mortal at this point.
I get it now. Okay.
Yeah.