I happened to be visiting our friends Richard and Tanyi,
co-owners of La Hacienda to talk about our upcoming
picnic. This was at 8pm on a Saturday night. Little did I
know that only two hours later as Richard was closing
up the store, he suffered a major cardiac event and his
heart stopped beating. Fortunately, Tanyi applied chest
compressions until the rescue team from our own
Squad 11 arrived to take over and were able to get his
heart going again. Unfortunately, his heart stopped yet
again in transit to the hospital and the net result was
that he suffered significant neurological deprivation.
Noone was sure if he would survive the night but in fact
he held on as they intubated him and then through a
harrowing number of days in the intensive cardiac care