While visiting my daughter for a week in Penticton I had the pleasure of playing Pickleball at the Recreation Centre with some very friendly and welcoming people.
Recently, while playing, a man had a massive heart attack and 911 was called. A player ran to the pool to get two lifeguards, and as luck would have it, one of the Pickleball players was an emergency nurse.
It was very obvious the man was dead at this point, but the female lifeguard took charge having one person cut off his shirt, another administer CPR while she hooked up the defibrillator. And on the third shock he started breathing again and back to life!
I do not know this lifeguard’s name but she is a hero in this Saskatchewan man’s eyes.
Michael Hall
Carievale, Sask.
