Laura Geraghty was dead for 57 minutes last April after going into cardiac arrest.
“Once that blood clot hit, it hit hard. I just floated on, and it was white and beautiful. I was dead,” she recalled.
Geraghty was resuscitated by 11 people, who used CPR and a defibrillator.
After her heart attack, Geraghty became CPR certified and got a device that walks one through the process of administering the life-saving technique.
Just months later, Geraghty was in a North Attleborough Wal-Mart when she saw a stranger collapse.
She saw “people running, and people screaming, ‘Call 911,’” and went over to check things out.
“I just immediately dropped to my knees over his body,” she said.
She used the pocket CPR device and brought him back to life by the time emergency crews arrived.
“I got a faint pulse, so immediately you stop. Then, I looked at his stomach, and it started going up and down, and I was like, ‘Yes!’” said Geraghty.
“I think he was having a heart attack, due to the fact that his wife said he was complaining about a lot of chest pain before he went down,” Geraghty said.
“It’s a scary ordeal. I’ve never come into contact with something like this,” she said.
Now, Geraghty wonders how he’s doing – even though she still doesn’t know his name.
