Positivity: Man thanks hospital for saving his life, and donates $25,000
From Victoria, British Columbia:
Toronto resident returns to Victoria with $25,000 donation
Saturday, September 08, 2007Toronto resident Casey Roswell made a special trip to Victoria on Friday to thank the health care workers who saved his life last spring.
The 41-year-old advertising executive and his partner, Dr. Matthew Morgan, also had something else with them — a $25,000 donation for the Victoria Hospitals Foundation.
Roswell suffered a cardiac arrest in his hotel room when he and Morgan were visiting Victoria in April. As a physician, Morgan was able to give emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation before paramedics arrived.
Roswell was rushed to the intensive-care unit at Victoria General Hospital,and he credits the staff there with playing a major role in keeping him alive. He was later fitted with an implantable cardiac defibrillator at Royal Jubilee Hospital to correct his heart problem, with the operation coming on his 41st birthday.
Roswell and Morgan were at VGH to make their donation, and to reconnect with nurses, doctors and other medical professionals they had met during Roswell’s hospital stay.
Roswell, who had never had heart issues prior to the cardiac arrest, said the staff in the ICU was remarkable.
“It wasn’t just the medical care that I received, but also the compassion and the care that my family received.”
He said he has learned that with a so-called sudden “out-of-hospital” cardiac arrest like the one he suffered “few actually live to tell the story.
“So for me to have a complete recovery, I think, is a testament to the incredible care that I received here at [the Vancouver Island Health Authority].” …..
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