"I woke up Sunday morning and we were getting the RV ready to leave. I don't remember saying any of this, but all of a sudden I said I'm going to pass out,' she said. Then she dropped. Former EMT Patrick O'Loughlin and his wife Sheryl bought a AED defibrillator they keep under the sink Mon., Nov. 3, 2025 in their Santa Rosa home. (John Burgess / The Press Democrat) Her limp body was wedged between the couch and the wall."
"Patrick pulled her free and described later seeing his wife's breathing go from shallow to gasping agonal breaths, dangerously far apart. For a while there she was breathing erratically, he said. I was tapping her on the face, two or three minutes later she absolutely stopped breathing. At some point, someone in the group was able to reach 911. They said, Let me listen to her breathing,' Patrick remembered the 911 dispatcher saying. After five seconds, they said, This is too long, start chest compressions.'"
"By his count, he had done CPR probably six times. Also by his count, none of those people survived. As an assistant golf coach at Maria Carrillo High School, Patrick has had to regularly retrain in CPR, but has not had to use his training in about 25 years. I just jumped on top of her, on the floor basically of our RV. It was crazy, he said. I immediately started CPR and they said the ambulance was on its way."
Sheryl O'Loughlin, 58, lost memory of a Saturday hike and dinner while staying in an RV at Six Sigma Ranch with her husband Patrick and two other couples. On Sunday morning she announced she would pass out and collapsed, her body wedged between the couch and the wall. Patrick pulled her free and watched her breathing deteriorate from shallow to gasping agonal breaths until breathing stopped. Someone in the group reached 911, and the dispatcher instructed to start chest compressions after five seconds. Patrick, a former EMT, immediately began CPR on the RV floor. The couple now keep an AED under their sink.
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