Paramedics Save Nurse in Cardiac Arrest in Their Home

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (WGRZ) -- When Wayne Howard talks about the call he received on July 29th, at first he said he didn’t feel much urgency. Michael and Maureen McCarthy said the same thing.  Michael even admits he was out golfing with his grandson when he got a similar call. 42-year-old Lynn Howard — Wayne’s wife and the daughter of Michael and Maureen — had collapsed while at work.  Could it have been exhaustion? Maybe she hadn’t eaten properly that day? After playing through each of the less severe options, Lynn’s family were called to the hospital in a much more serious tone. Now they began to understand what had happened: Lynn had suffered from sudden cardiac arrest, and had been rushed to Mercy Hospital. "I felt as though my life as I knew it when I left the house that morning was over,” said Wayne. “Everything that we had planned for… I just felt like things weren't going to be the same." But if you can imagine the perfect place to have a cardiac arrest —if there is such a thing—you might as well imagine the home of Sarah Pajak and Jeffery Luke, two trained paramedics with Twin City Ambulance. Read more...
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