I went swimming as a child. I dunked under water and I kicked myself off the wall, like I'd seen on the Olympics... only I did it in the wrong place. I shot forward under water, my arms by my side, and my head crashed into the ladder for getting in and out of the pool.
I remember a sparkle lights across my vision then seeing nothing, complete blackness. Semi-conscious, I breathed in. Pain filled my chest, like a thousand cold knives inside of me. Panicking, I knew something was wrong but couldn't work out what it was and I needed to breathe again. The second breath wasn't as painful but filled with sheer panic. The third, I didn't feel a thing.
The panic disappeared, I felt nothing anymore.
The next thing I know, I feel a cracking my chest and a strange rhythmic feeling that seemed to last a long time, but it was somehow calming, it felt reassuring.
Disorientated I regain consciousness, my Lungs on fire, my throat hurting and the biggest headache of my life.
A stranger had pulled me out of the water and performed CPR as I wasn't breathing.
I later learned that he had been doing CPR for about 30 mins. When the paramedics arrived, he stayed until I was awake, then disappeared. Nobody knew who he was.
I remember a sparkle lights across my vision then seeing nothing, complete blackness. Semi-conscious, I breathed in. Pain filled my chest, like a thousand cold knives inside of me. Panicking, I knew something was wrong but couldn't work out what it was and I needed to breathe again. The second breath wasn't as painful but filled with sheer panic. The third, I didn't feel a thing.
The panic disappeared, I felt nothing anymore.
The next thing I know, I feel a cracking my chest and a strange rhythmic feeling that seemed to last a long time, but it was somehow calming, it felt reassuring.
Disorientated I regain consciousness, my Lungs on fire, my throat hurting and the biggest headache of my life.
A stranger had pulled me out of the water and performed CPR as I wasn't breathing.
I later learned that he had been doing CPR for about 30 mins. When the paramedics arrived, he stayed until I was awake, then disappeared. Nobody knew who he was.