Both my sons, like their dad, are recovering alcoholics. My younger son, at age 33, collapsed on a basketball court from Sudden Cardiac Death. Two Orange County Fire Authority paramedics were at his side within minutes. CPR...nope! Lidocaine injection into the heart...nope! Defibrillator...yes! At that point, Brian had been defibbed in a hospital setting some 18 times. Alcohol causes atrial fibrillation. A-fib can be deadly. (My beloved husband died from a massive cardiac arrest two years ago...a-fib) One day at a time for all of us.
Both my sons, like their dad, are recovering alcoholics. My younger son, at age 33, collapsed on a basketball court from Sudden Cardiac Death. Two Orange County Fire Authority paramedics were at his side within minutes. CPR...nope! Lidocaine injection into the heart...nope! Defibrillator...yes! At that point, Brian had been defibbed in a hospital setting some 18 times. Alcohol causes atrial fibrillation. A-fib can be deadly. (My beloved husband died from a massive cardiac arrest two years ago...a-fib) One day at a time for all of us.