A Virginia man 'miraculously' survived a life-threatening heart attack when he crashed his car right outside a cardiologist’s office, reports New York Post.
64-year-old Jeff Geraci was driving home from a workout class last month when he suddenly stopped breathing and lost control of his car. He swerved across multiple lanes before hitting a sign and stopping in a parking lot, WTVR reported.
“I sat in the car because something didn’t quite feel right. Sipped some coffee, and I was going to sit there and close my eyes for a few minutes. But instead, I decided to drive home,” Geraci said.
By coincidence, the crash occurred near the office of Dr Deepak Talreja , chief of cardiology for Sentara Health. Talreja rushed to the scene while on the phone with 911.
“When I got to your car, what I saw was the windshield was shattered and your airbags were deployed, and it was hard to see you because you were surrounded by airbags and a shattered windshield,” the doctor told Geraci.
Talreja quickly assessed Geraci and realised he was in critical condition. “You weren’t breathing, and you didn’t have a pulse — SCD, sudden cardiac death. And what that means is the heart just isn’t doing the job, and so it’s a form of death,” he said. “But fortunately, we got things restarted very quickly, and so God was watching out.”
Geraci’s heart attack had blocked 95% of his lower anterior descending artery and 90% of the upper part. Talreja said that if medical help had not arrived within eight minutes, Geraci likely could not have been revived.
“The confusion when I woke up with things in my arm and people running around, it was like a dream, muddled dream, and foggy,” Geraci recalled. “I asked the nurse what happened, and he said, ‘You have a heart attack. You crashed your car.’”
Despite a family history of heart disease, Geraci had believed his active lifestyle would protect him. “My father had two heart attacks. My mother died of a heart attack… one sister has heart issues. I’ve been an athlete since I was 14 years old. I work out all the time. I ran marathons, [I thought] it’s not going to happen to me.”
Now back at work, Geraci is focusing on improving his diet. “It’s such a testimony of God’s greatness, of all the things that had to happen to keep me alive. I’m blessed. It’s a miracle. God was there, and thank God Dr Talreja was there.”
64-year-old Jeff Geraci was driving home from a workout class last month when he suddenly stopped breathing and lost control of his car. He swerved across multiple lanes before hitting a sign and stopping in a parking lot, WTVR reported.
“I sat in the car because something didn’t quite feel right. Sipped some coffee, and I was going to sit there and close my eyes for a few minutes. But instead, I decided to drive home,” Geraci said.
By coincidence, the crash occurred near the office of Dr Deepak Talreja , chief of cardiology for Sentara Health. Talreja rushed to the scene while on the phone with 911.
“When I got to your car, what I saw was the windshield was shattered and your airbags were deployed, and it was hard to see you because you were surrounded by airbags and a shattered windshield,” the doctor told Geraci.
Talreja quickly assessed Geraci and realised he was in critical condition. “You weren’t breathing, and you didn’t have a pulse — SCD, sudden cardiac death. And what that means is the heart just isn’t doing the job, and so it’s a form of death,” he said. “But fortunately, we got things restarted very quickly, and so God was watching out.”
Geraci’s heart attack had blocked 95% of his lower anterior descending artery and 90% of the upper part. Talreja said that if medical help had not arrived within eight minutes, Geraci likely could not have been revived.
“The confusion when I woke up with things in my arm and people running around, it was like a dream, muddled dream, and foggy,” Geraci recalled. “I asked the nurse what happened, and he said, ‘You have a heart attack. You crashed your car.’”
Despite a family history of heart disease, Geraci had believed his active lifestyle would protect him. “My father had two heart attacks. My mother died of a heart attack… one sister has heart issues. I’ve been an athlete since I was 14 years old. I work out all the time. I ran marathons, [I thought] it’s not going to happen to me.”
Now back at work, Geraci is focusing on improving his diet. “It’s such a testimony of God’s greatness, of all the things that had to happen to keep me alive. I’m blessed. It’s a miracle. God was there, and thank God Dr Talreja was there.”
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