Wife brings husband back from the dead
Sanita’s CPR saves partner after heart stopped for 50mins If there was no CPR then there would have been no hope for him SANITA LAZDAUSKA CO MAYO YESTERDAY
A WIFE brought her husband back to life by performing CPR – after he “died” for nearly an hour.
When Sanita Lazdauska, 39, climbed out of bed at their home in Mayo, leaving Juris, 45, snoring away, she thought he was asleep.
But she noticed he was making strange sounds and watched in horror as he stopped breathing and turned blue.
Fast-thinking Sanita, a mum of two, jumped into action and called for an ambulance and listened as a call handler told her she’d have to perform lifesaving CPR.
The cleaner dragged her husband off the bed and on to the floor, and performed compressions, keeping blood flowing through his body, while his heart had stopped.
Heroic Sanita managed to keep going for half an hour before paramedics arrived and it was 50 minutes in total before Juris’ heart started beating again. The factory worker suffered a cardiac arrest and had it not been for his wife’s efforts, he would have died.
A year on, the family from Cregduff, Ballinrobe, held a “rebirth” party, inviting the paramedics and doctors who helped save him.
Sanita said: “He always talks about his first life and said this is his second life.
“It was very emotional to see them all, to sit down and have a chat.
“They were delighted to see him doing so well because the majority of cases they attend the outcome is very different.
“So it was nice for the team to see someone they had saved.
“If there was no CPR, there would be no hope for him.”
Juris went into cardiac arrest at around 7am on March 4, 2019.
Sanita said: “I heard he was making a funny noise – something unusual. I turned around and it sounded like he was snoring, but it wasn’t a normal snore.
“I thought that he was having a fit because he was curled up.
“I tried to shake him and wake him up but he wouldn’t stop. His eyes were open, but I knew he couldn’t see me.
“I was saying to him, ‘What’s going on, wake up’. It lasted a minute and then he fell back, limp and blue and stopped breathing.
“That’s when I knew we’re in trouble.”
After being put into a coma, Juris woke up a day later with no memory of his brush with death.
His wife said: “He kind of knew who he was, who I was and the kids, but not much else.
“It doesn’t happen like the movies where they wake up and everything’s happy. He was very confused and agitated.”
He had an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placed in him, to measure heart activity, which delivers a shocks in the event of an abnormality.
With a change in his medication and an adjustment of the defibrillator, Juris was back to work just 10 months after his heart attack.
Sanita said: “There was not much time to think about me being a hero. He’s delighted to be here and he’s enjoying life, he is making the most of it.”