A North Texas man originally from Germany is happy to be alive after he drove himself to Baylor Hospital in Irving while suffering a heart attack last month.
He’s also sharing the message he has learned after the frightening experience.Sam Torabli said everything happened so fast.July 10 was a normal day for the 62-year-old. He went to Kroger on Belt Line Road in Irving to pick up a few items on his grocery list.But as soon as he walked through the doors, he said he felt off."Something took over me, and I could not breathe anymore. And just a lack of oxygen," he said.He also couldn’t walk or talk, and time was running out.
So, he had a lot of fluid on his lungs, secondary to his blood pressure being elevated and strain on his heart," said Dr. Connie Swickhamer, who practices emergency medicine at Baylor Scott & White.The medical team behind Dr. Swickhamer immediately jumped into action."He continued to have a difficult time breathing and, therefore, ended up being intubated and on a breathing machine within about 10 minutes of his arrival since he was so short on breath," she said.
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