There was a sound outside I think I heard, but I wasn't sure. When I looked, a dude was sitting in his car in front of my ex-wife's house. He looked like he was smoking a cigarette or trying to. From what I could see, he had one in his hand. I was on the phone with my ex and told her there was some dude parked out front and me and the kids were keeping an eye out. She said she was on her way home. About 6 minutes later the doorbell rings. This guy is there asking to use my phone because his is dead and this dude in the car looks in bad shape. The dog keeps trying to push past me to run outside. The guy keeps asking for my phone and I'm at first like wtf, is this about to be some cornball home invasion set up? So he says he wants to call 911. I volunteer to call and they start hitting me with questions about the dude's condition. I tell them he looks like he ODed. Eventually I give the guy who rung the bell my phone to describe what's going on with the dude in the car and go put my shoes on making sure my kids are downstairs. I get outside and they've moved the dude from his car to a blanket on the ground at the urging of the 911 operator. So the dude is sort of moaning and breathing lightly. The 911 operator tells the guy to begin chest compressions. I hold the phone and he starts. Eventually the dude, who's paler than anyone I've ever seen, stops breathing and it seems like it's over but the 911 operator tells him to continue compressions counting the rhythm. Amazingly this guy comes back after about 10 long seconds of nothing. He starts gagging and seemingly wheezing. A minute or two later an ambulance pulls up and a paramedic relieves the guy. They tell us the dude is alive.
I kept looking back at the door of the house hoping my kids weren't watching this and it didn't seem like they were. My ex-wife pulls up as they load the dude into the ambulance frantically like wtf. Crazy thing is the guy tells me he had literally just taken a CPR course the Saturday prior for work or something. I told him he may have saved that dude and did great. As we look at the dude's car we notice the wheel is off the axle and there's a big skidmark in the grass so he likely crashed somehow. Of course I get back inside and my daughter had watched the whole thing from the window so we had to explain to the kids what was going on between freaking out. Meanwhile they had the guy in the ambulance but didn't leave for at least what seemed like 20 minutes. Not sure if that means he didn't make it after all or just that he was stable or what, but no sirens as they took off. They just drove away. Now I've spent all night thinking about whether I watched that guy die or not, wishing I'd gone outside sooner. Their town in Western Pennsylvania has been dealing with heroin overdoses and opioid addiction pretty routinely, but not usually in my kids part of town. My son says "I'm probably gonna remember this forever" which I guess was better than a DARE commercial. @SC MMA MD @Splinty am I reading too much into the ambulance time? Were they just giving him narcan or something or was that guy likely gone?
I kept looking back at the door of the house hoping my kids weren't watching this and it didn't seem like they were. My ex-wife pulls up as they load the dude into the ambulance frantically like wtf. Crazy thing is the guy tells me he had literally just taken a CPR course the Saturday prior for work or something. I told him he may have saved that dude and did great. As we look at the dude's car we notice the wheel is off the axle and there's a big skidmark in the grass so he likely crashed somehow. Of course I get back inside and my daughter had watched the whole thing from the window so we had to explain to the kids what was going on between freaking out. Meanwhile they had the guy in the ambulance but didn't leave for at least what seemed like 20 minutes. Not sure if that means he didn't make it after all or just that he was stable or what, but no sirens as they took off. They just drove away. Now I've spent all night thinking about whether I watched that guy die or not, wishing I'd gone outside sooner. Their town in Western Pennsylvania has been dealing with heroin overdoses and opioid addiction pretty routinely, but not usually in my kids part of town. My son says "I'm probably gonna remember this forever" which I guess was better than a DARE commercial. @SC MMA MD @Splinty am I reading too much into the ambulance time? Were they just giving him narcan or something or was that guy likely gone?