It was a typical Friday night for Adam Dodd, a well-liked left-sided player for non-league of Manchester United. He and his girlfriend, Kat, had a Thai takeaway and were relaxing after a busy week. But a few hours later, Dodd found himself in the intensive care unit at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
Kat woke up to hear her 29-year-old partner struggling to breathe. When she couldn’t wake him, she immediately performed CPR while waiting for paramedics to arrive. Dodd had gone into cardiac arrest while asleep.
“I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for Kat,” Dodd recalls about that night on June 4, 2022. “I was clinically dead at one point. It took four shocks from the paramedics to get my heart back to a normal rhythm.”
Now, more than two years later and playing football again for Bamber Bridge, Dodd is encouraging everyone to learn CPR. “It only takes 15 minutes of your time,” he says. “There’s no greater skill than saving a life.”
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