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Man ‘Brought Back To Life’
By County Ambulance Workers
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
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In the back of a sgeeding
Chattoosga County Ambulance,
David Stowe crossed the line
between life and death. The
squeal of the ambulance siren
David Stowe of Ridgeway Community, Trion, is
grateful to be alive after experiencing death on three
occasions March 16. Stowe suffered three cardiac ar
rests and was revived by the electric shock of a
defibrillator unit each time. Stowe is recuperating at
home. Preliminary tests show little or no permanent
heart damage and point to a complete recovery. Pic
tured are Stowe, (seated) with his wife, Charlotte (stan
ding, left), Alma Lewis, Advanced EMT, and Jimmy
Bennett, EMT, holding the cardiac monitor and
defibrillator unit. (Staff photo by Kay Abbott).
was stilled. The crushinfi pain
in his chest ceased. Suddenly,
Stowe saw deceased members
of his family gathered before
him, He looketf into the face of
his sister, who had died nearly
a decade ago. He was aware of
a peaceful stillness.
As the ambulance passed
the Chattooga County Line, 16
minutes into its mission, Alma
Lewis, Advanced EMT,
responded to her patient. His
breathing had stop%ed. His
face had turned purplish. The
cardiac monitor showed ven
tricular tachycardia: a form of
cardiac arrest. There was no
pulse.
Throwing her communica
tions headset clear, the EMT
gulled out the defibrillator unit.
he applied friction reducing
jelly to the paddles. The driver
saw what was hapgening and
increased speed. One shock
was given to the patient's
heart. One minute had passed
since he entered cardiac arrest.
With the shock, Stowe’s
heart began to function. His
breathing resumed.
“I just died, didn't I?”
Stowe said to the EMT.
“Yes, you did,”" she
answered, startled that the pa
tient could even talk, much less
assess what had just hapiened.
“You brought me back,” he
said quietly. '
“I know I died because I
saw my whole family standing
before me.” Turning to his
wife, Charlotte, who sat beside
him, he said, “‘I love you.”
Stowe was once again in pain
as he was wheeled into the
emergency room at Redmond
Park Hospital. In ER, he
would have another cardiac ar
rest, in which he had an
awareness of leaving his body.
Later in the Cardiac Care Unit,
he would experience death a
third time.
“It was the worst pain I
ever had,” Stowe recalls of his
March 16 ordeal.
“I do believe if it hadn't
been for the etfilipment and the
personnel on that ambulance, I
wouldn't be here today.”
“They say there are three
steps you go through in dying.
I went through two of them. In
the first, I saw my whole fami
ly before me. After I got to the
emergency room, I went out
again. I left my body and could
see mgself down on the table
and them working on me. It
was the second step. I had
already left my body. In the
third step, they say you go on
out.”
Later, the 43-year-old
Riegel lift truck mechanic had
to be defibrillated again. he has
no recall of the experience, due,
he feels, to his sedation with
painkillers just prior to the
third cardiac arrest.
“Words can't ggress how
I feel,” Stowe sta Mondag'
at his home on Ridgeway Road.
i qwa¥a took the ambulance
service for granted, but now |
realize what a service like that
can do for the community.”
Stowe had spent the after
noon of Sunday, March 16,
helping his son with some l?ht
carpentry work. Around 8
p.m., he was enjoying a sgc:me
of RummKl-Q. similar to Scrab
ble, with his wife, Charlotte, in
the dining room of their home.
He had never ex;ierienced a
major illness. Smo ing a pipe
was his only bad habit.
“David started ?erspirin%
heavily and colx;}p ained o
chest pains,”” Mrs, Stowe
recalls. ““He slumped over on
the table and then he got up
and walked over to the couch.”
“I knew what those symp
toms meant. I've had a number
of family members with cardiac
problems. After David got to
the couch, I called for the am
bulance.”
“I wish everyone knew the
sz'mpt,oms of a heart attack. If
they knew them, more people
would get to the hospital in
time. Too many times, people
think it's just indigestion and
they wait for the person to get
better. Then it's too late.”
Preliminary indicators
,foint to a complete recovery
or Stowe. Doctors have told
5? he may be able to return to
his job at Riegel in May.
“I haven't made any lgf
changes in my life,” he stated.
“Of course, I've %ven up
smoking my pii)e. r. Ray
mond oun% told me in the
hospital he felt that if I'd never
smoked that pipe I never
would have geen in the
hospital.”
Alma Lewis, the responding
Advanced EMT, hopes more
residents will be quick to call
for assistance in the first
stages of a cardiac emergency.
“We need to educate the
K:lblic to go ahead and get
p,” she stated. A lot of peo
ple write off their chest %‘ains
as a little indifistion. hey
think they’ll be better in a lit
tle while. A lot of time they’ve
already arrested by the time
we're called.
“Time is key. If we get
there in time we can do
semething.”
Miss Lewis stated that am
bulance service personnel are
aware of a number of cardiac
patients in the county who
might need help at anK time.
‘“Almost every week, there
is somebod){)::w d\lvhoz'«e sg(l;est
ains have been diagnosed as
'&E&l&e dn’gea'e."- she stated.
"At present, the Chattooga
County Ambulance Service has
one defibrillator unit. When the
unit is carried out of the coun
ty on a call, a unit is borrowed
from the Chattooga County
Hospital. Members of the Am
bulance Service are currently
raising funds to help purchase
a second unit for SB,OOO.
“It takes two torun a call,”
Miss Lewis stated. ‘‘Jimmy
Bennett gave me a very good
drive down to Redmon?l was
most fortunate that he realiz
ed everithing that was going
on. He knows how to operate
the ambulance so I can do what
I have to do in back and yet get
us there as fast as possible."
Miss Lewis was me)ressed
by the gatient‘s attitude in the
life and death situation.
It was a very strange sen
sation when he started talking
to me in the ambulance,” she
stated. ‘I had no idea he would
realize what was going on. He
had such a gentle nature. He
immediately wanted to talk to
his wife ang to tell her he lov
ed her.
It's one of those instauces
when you're there when it hz:r
pens and you're able to do
somethinfi about it. We were
both in the right place at the
right time.”
Alma Lewis is in her eighth
year with the ambulance ser
vice and has certification as a
Cardiac Technician and as an
Advanced Medical Technician.
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Students Uninjured After
School Bus Accident
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
No injuries were reported
Wednesday momirg when a
Chattooga County School bus
loaded with 20 children crash
ed head-on with a Georgia
Forestry Service pickup truck
on a bridge on g‘armersville
Road.
The accident occurred at 7
a.m, on Farmersville Road near
Gore.
Bus 82-3 was driven by
Lorene Cummings. The
children stated that they were
unharmed when questioned by
the bus driver immediately
following the accident.
Superintendent of Schools Don
Hh:?'es again questioned the
children when he arrived at the
scene.
According to Georgia State
Patrol reports the bus received
moderate damage to the left
front side.
The Georgia Forestry Ser
vice pickup truck, driven by
Henry Allen Cannon, received
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extensive damage.
According to a report by
Trooper Caron Caleb of the
Georgia State Patrol, the colli
sion occurred when both
vehicles attempted to cross the
bridge at the same time. The
refiort stated that both
vehicles were slightly over the
center line when the accident
occurred.
The school bus, traveling
north at 15 mph, was just
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