Gerry Fitzgerald

Absolutely.

Yeah, absolutely.

Because I knew once they arrived that I was in good hands.

I knew that if things went badly, that they could take care of me and probably stabilise me until the arrival of an ambulance.

I was looking so far as the stars aligned for me because...

there was an ambulance in the area which was diverted to my house and they were there within six minutes.

Their job at that stage would have been to take my vitals.

So they would be looking at my blood pressure, they would be looking at my oxygenation levels to see where I was with that.

And basically to provide reassurance to my wife, which they were doing.

Part of the CFR scheme job is not all about doing the medical stuff.

So if we go to a call, we're not all involved in looking after the patient.

We would take the family away and we would deal with the family and try and reassure them as best we can.

So that's what they were doing.

They were doing that with my wife and they were doing that with me.

The National Ambulance Service arrived at my house and it was two guys that I had done two calls with that day.

That's unbelievable.

I had done two calls that day with two guys from the National Ambulance Service, Eamon Brown and Ean Dunford.

And both of them walked in the door of my house and said, my God, Gerry, what's going on here?

At that stage, I was able to talk.

It was when I went to the hospital that things went badly very, very quickly.