A Detroit paramedic was giving a CPR to a man who's suffering from a heart attack last Friday morning when he too, began to have his own attack.
47-year old and 15-year veteran Joseph Hardman is currently being hailed as a hero and a walking miracle because he didn't stop at trying to save the man's life. He and his patient were driven to the Detroit Medical Center in a 24/7 Cardiac Care unit, where they both had stents to clear their arteries. Joseph's patient was first dropped off to the ER before the doctors attended to him as well. While it may take a few rehab visits over the next few months, the paramedic hero is expected to make a full recovery.
Hardman's doctor, Doctor Michael Brown, says that the paramedic's case was a "widow maker" artery and the chances of it happening to anyone were "one in a million". Hardman explains that there was a "sudden explosion-type feeling in his chest". He didn't think that his condition was going to worsen, until his chest pains were getting more painful and he began to sweat profusely. "If I hadn't been in the position I was in, I would have been deceased," he relates.
Union representative Joe Barney recalls, "He nearly died, had to go to surgery. He's in fact laying three beds over from the guy he brought into the hospital." Hardman says that he has been living a healthy life for the past years he's been serving as a paramedic. Prior to his heart attack, there were no heart issues posing threat against his health.
As for the patient whose life was saved by the paramedic, he declines any interview from the media but is expected to make a full recovery as well.
Fully dedicated to what he does, Hardman shares: That's why we do what we do - because that's what we live for."
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