Positivity: Woman Saved Twice by Rochester Police
06/29/2007
A Rochester woman who was revived from cardiac arrest decades ago by Rochester police was saved a second time recently - again by Rochester police - when she went into cardiac arrest at her home.
On Sunday, Shirley Eady, 70, of 456 Harmony Ave. had just come back from the grocery store with her son’s girlfriend and settled at the kitchen table when she suddenly collapsed.
Her son Scott Eady said he had gone upstairs and heard his girlfriend calling him. Seeing his mother lying on the kitchen floor, Eady quickly began CPR, doing his best to bring her back.
“It wasn’t working so well,” Eady said.
His girlfriend, in the meantime, had called 911. It was 12:43 p.m. when Rochester police veteran Johnny Farmer got the call. Farmer was the first official to arrive and had with him one of the department’s two automated external defibrillator packs.
Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the heart develops an arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythm, causing it to stop beating. Eady said his mother showed no vital signs - no heartbeat, no pulse, no breathing.
Farmer gave Shirley Eady a jolt to the chest. Two ambulance crews and other emergency officials began to arrive, including East Rochester Constable Tom Setzer, who was off-duty. They continued the advanced lifesaving measures, and it took three shocks before her body responded. Shirley Eady was transported to The Medical Center, Beaver.
It happened before in 1983. Shirley Eady suddenly collapsed on Brighton Avenue and was revived by then patrolman Les Fraser, who later became Rochester’s police chief …..
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