Mr. Ballin

And so they explained to him how to do that over the phone.

Charlie was horrified, but he tried to take a deep breath and do what they said so he could help Dawn.

So he kept the phone by his side while he straddled Dawn and gave her chest compressions.

It would take an agonizing 19 minutes before a single paramedic finally arrived.

And by that time, Dawn had begun to turn blue.

Charlie paced around anxiously inside of his apartment while the paramedic took over chest compressions.

Charlie could hear the paramedic calling for more help on his radio.

And sure enough, a few minutes later, more paramedics streamed inside.

And at first, this made Charlie feel hopeful, like more medical support meant that Dom was going to be okay here.

But then, from his spot out in the living room, he heard one of the paramedics say something about drugs, like this could be an overdose or something.

Charlie heard that and he called out that Don didn't do drugs, but the paramedics did not seem to hear him.

And a second later, their voices got more urgent.

They were using a lot of medical terminology that Charlie didn't understand, but he did catch one thing.

Don's heart had apparently stopped.

Now, the paramedics were actually able to get her heart beating again, but it took them more than an hour to get her stable enough to move her from Charlie's apartment to the hospital.

And Charlie, he just watched in panic and despair as they loaded his girlfriend on a stretcher, and then he followed them out of the apartment to stay with Dawn for as long as he could.

And then before they put her into the ambulance, he leaned in and he told her he would meet her at the hospital.

As the ambulance doors closed and the sirens came on, Charlie's friend, Sam, appeared, looking very shocked by the commotion.

They'd had plans to go to a church event that day that had free food, which Charlie had totally forgotten about.

But Charlie told Sam everything that had happened and said he had to skip out on that event because he needed to go to the hospital as fast as he could to meet Dawn.