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Published September 23, 2008 12:44 pm - Lonnie Skaggs doesn’t remember the week of Aug. 3-9.
Rejoicing after massive heart attack
A shocking start
By GINA KINSLOW
Glasgow Daily Times
GLASGOW
—
Lonnie Skaggs doesn’t remember the week of Aug. 3-9.
His doctor says having amnesia is a small price to pay after experiencing a massive heart attack on Aug. 3.
Skaggs was at church, praying at the altar, when it happened.
“I don’t remember even coming to church that day,” he said.
When Skaggs collapsed, his pastor, the Rev. Russell Janes, and fellow members of Tracy United Methodist Church, sprang into action to save his life.
“I had just gotten started in prayer and heard confusion and commotion and looked over and Sue, his wife, started hollering, ‘Lonnie, Lonnie, Lonnie.’ I looked over there and he was sprawled out on the floor,” Janes said.
Valerie England, a registered nurse who works in the nursery at T.J. Samson Community Hospital, began administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Janes and church member Bob Penrod joined in and together they administered CPR until firefighters with the Austin Tracy Volunteer Fire Department arrived.
“The rest of it was just God performing miracles,” Janes said.
England said she just automatically reacted to what was happening and that she didn’t take time to think what it was she needed to do. She admitted Skaggs’ condition was not good.
“It looked pretty bad,” she said. “We weren’t getting much response from him at all. I knew, being here, away from everything, it’s not like when you’re in a hospital setting ... you have no equipment. You just have your own hands, your own brain to work with. That was it. I knew we were his only chance. Us and God.”
Larry Bragg, chief of the Austin Tracy Volunteer Fire Department, was the first firefighter to arrive.
“I was praying in my woods when I got the call. I’m a volunteer and I carry my pager with me at all times,” he said. “I got the call to come here that someone had fainted.”
When Bragg arrived at the church, England, Janes and Penrod were still administering CPR.
“I started from there and called for an AED (automated external defibrillator) and started an airway and bagged him. After my truck got here, I put an AED on him and continued with CPR and then we shocked him.”
Bragg shocked Skaggs’ heart twice with the AED.
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