YOU WILL LIKE THIS ONE! 
That was my sister calling for a chat...
One thing that she was
desperate to tell me was a story which is so unlikely and incredible that I wouldn't have believed it if I had read it on social media. (Obviously, CycleChat is a form of social media, so you will have to judge for yourselves whether
YOU believe it!
)
Sis had been to stay with a friend for the weekend. The husband of her friend is a cyclist and he has a neighbour friend who is
also a cyclist. The husband and his mate had planned to do a charity bike ride but it got cancelled. The mate decided to ride the route anyway...
Wife of cycling mate was tracking her husband via some app on his phone. He seemed to be making steady progress. Until then he was
NOT... For quite a long while the tracker showed no movement. She tried ringing him. No reply...
It was a great route. Pity about the event being cancelled. Still, cycling neighbour was enjoying his ride. Ooh, that hill was a bit steep, and he was feeling a bit below par.
Phnaaaaargh...!
A motorist was driving up behind a cyclist on a steep hill. The driver is
also a cyclist and so was being extra careful as he overtook the rider. He glanced over and saw the ashen face of the cyclist, and the bike starting to wobble. This did not look at all good. The driver got past, stopped and as he got out the cyclist fell sideways, unconscious. He was still clipped onto his pedals. Concerned driver unclips the cyclist's feet and is reaching for his phone when...
The second driver who had been behind driver #1 saw what was unfolding. Driver #2 is a nurse/paramedic (I'm not sure which... anyway, the important thing is that they knew what to do...) (S)He pulled over, jumped out of the car, and immediately spotted a defibrillator on the wall of an adjacent building. Gets to work...
The regional air ambulance base was just round the corner. Within minutes, the ailing cyclist is on board and heading to hospital...
Worried wife monitoring the tracker now sees that it is moving again... At over 100 mph! Her phone rings. Someone tells her the awful news...
The cyclist wakes up. Where is he? His wife is there. Lots of people in white coats. Lots of cables attached to electrodes on his head and body and connected to banks of electronic devices. Hospital!
He had been in a coma for 3 days. There had been no meaningful signs of recovery and the doctors thought that he wasn't going to make it so discussions were taking place about possible organ donation. Suddenly there was a blip on a waveform on one of the monitors-
LIFE! The medical staff redoubled their efforts. He was saved and is now almost fully recovered.
The odds of the paramedic being there at the precise moment, with a defibrillator to hand, and an air ambulance a couple of minutes away must be tiny, and even then his chances must have been slim. I looked it up -
cardiac arrest prognosis. He is one
very lucky cyclist!
I'm 70 and still rolling along.
