How to Survive a Heart Attack with a Lucky Crash
If you happen to suffer a heart attack while driving your car, don’t crash into just any building. Make sure you crash into a cardiologist’s office—or near one. That’s what Jeff Geraci, a 64-year-old financial planner in Virginia Beach, Virginia, recently did.
After working out at a fitness club, Geraci didn’t feel good and sat for a few minutes in his car before deciding to drive home. During the drive, he suffered a heart attack and veered off the road, crossing multiple lanes of traffic. Fortunately, he didn’t hit any other cars, but instead crashed into a sign near the office of Dr. Deepak Talreja, the chief of cardiology for Sentara Health. Talreja heard the crash and rushed out to help Geraci, while calling 911.
“You weren’t breathing, and you didn’t have a pulse—SCD, sudden cardiac death,” Talreja said, speaking to Geraci during a news feature on a local TV station, WTKR. “And what that means is the heart just isn’t doing the job, and so it’s a form of death. But fortunately, we got things restarted very quickly, and so God was watching out . . .” Geraci certainly believes that God ensured that his heart attack wasn’t fatal. “It’s a miracle,” he said. “God was there, and thank God Dr. Talreja was there.”
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Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
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