What It’s Like to Save a Life

In Short: Awesome.

Randy Cassingham
What It’s Like to
3 min readMar 3, 2021

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My wife and I are volunteer medics in our rural community, and were awakened by my pager on a Sunday morning at 1:04 a.m. The report: a 50-year-old man, unconscious, about 5 miles away from our house.

As the garage door rolled up, an update came from dispatch: “CPR in progress.”

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