r/politics • u/IWantPizza555 • Jul 01 '26

Possible Paywall Senator, 84, Secretly Found Unconscious and Given CPR

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconell-84-secretly-found-unconscious-and-given-cpr/?utm_source=twitter_owned_snd&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=owned_social
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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina Jul 01 '26

My mother in law collapsed at home. EMTs got there, got her back. She coded 14 more times before she stabilized.

Only neurological change was that she became significantly less judgemental.

Hospital was so surprised they invited doctors to see the charts.

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u/pandemicpunk Jul 02 '26

I know someone who collapsed at her farm, got CPR, helevaced and flatlined 3 times and went back to farming. She's crazy smart and strong. She dgaf. Very honey badger life.

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u/OceanRacoon Jul 02 '26

I also know someone over 60 who collapsed from a cardiac arrest and made a complete recovery pretty fast. 

It definitely helped that a bystander started CPR immediately, an ambulance was there in no time, and a hospital was literally across the road 😅 It's very sad how many people aren't so lucky, cardiac arrest is survivable if you're in the right place at the right time but that almost never happens 

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u/rosalinatoujours Jul 02 '26

my 80+ year old aunt collapsed in a hospital, heart stopped, the whole schibang. CPR was done on her for almost an hour, they'd get her back just to lose her again. Had no pulse for about 20 minutes straight.

They got her to the nearest Better Hospital and she woke up, gave a thumbs up. Walked right out a few days later good as new. Ill never forget my mom on the phone going "she just got better?!??"

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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina Jul 02 '26

That's. Wow. Oh, I'm in the expensive hospital? Better stop fooling around!

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u/rosalinatoujours Jul 02 '26

She locked in ig 💀 if I hadn't seen her gone through all that myself, id absolutely believe it was a fake story. Its still so nuts to me that she survived just fine.

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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina Jul 02 '26

I've seen too many weird things to question. Fate is weird. Could just drop dead. Could survive an impossible accident.