A dropped cell phone could have helped save Fort Worth police officer Terrance Parker's life.
A dropped cell phone could have helped save a Fort Worth police officer's life.Officer Terrance Parker was on the job when he suffered cardiac arrest on May 16."What I remember is that I was getting myself ready to go on a recruiting trip down in Austin, we had a Spartan event going on. Rainy day, I was loading up the Tahoe, put everything inside of it," Parker recalled. "Walk over to the bathroom and after that I woke up in the hospital.
Gentry, who works closely with Parker, recalls the tense moments."Seriously, everybody is like gathered in a semi-circle, and we just started praying," she said.With the relentless effort, Parker, a husband and father of four, regained a pulse.His doctors say he had a 100% blockage to the artery that provides 50% of the body's blood flow.Parker, in hindsight, recalls from time-to-time feeling over-exerted during his workouts."Pay attention to your body.
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