A man who was pronounced clinically dead and miraculously brought back to life after 90 minutes has shared details of his terrifying near-death experience. Alistair Blake, 61, went into cardiac arrest while sleeping next to his wife, Melinda, in the early hours of the morning in January 2019, the Daily Star reports.
Melinda noticed her husband of 35 years was ''gurgling'' and that he was not responding so she swiftly carried out CPR on him while she apprehensively waited for emergency services to appear. Paramedics failed to resuscitate Alistair in his home after 20 minutes and continued to work on him for over an hour, performing CPR on his lifeless body as well as giving him eight shocks to his chest with a defibrillator in a desperate attempt to restart his heart.
After a long 90 minutes of trying to save Alistair's life, the paramedics miraculously found a pulse. The 61-year-old said: "Technically, I was dead for 90 minutes. I remember going to bed on the Saturday night – and the next thing I remember was waking up Thursday morning on a trolley going from ICU to coronary care. The human brain has totally blocked out what happened in between."
"A lot of people ask me if I saw anything, and no, I did not see anything. No bright lights, nothing like that whatsoever. It's a case of not knowing what's out there – but I don't mind about that, as long as I'm fit and healthy."
Alistair was then transported to Frankston Hospital where doctors were able to unclog his blocked artery. A pacemaker was subsequently put on his heart as a precaution and Alistair was then discharged after 12 days.
He added: "You take a totally different approach to life. Reducing the number of hours I work, trying to connect more with family and friends. My eating habits have changed.
''I eat more healthily and do more exercise, if you're gonna go, you're gonna go. If it's gonna happen it's gonna happen."
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