Life savers: staff use AED to save unresponsive man at Nanaimo arena
NANAIMO — How do you thank people for saving your life?
It’s a rhetorical question Nanaimo’s Jim Corder is trying to find an answer to, after the 83-year-old went into cardiac arrest during a senior leisure skate at Frank Crane Arena.
Corder told NanaimoNewsNOW the only memory he has of Jan. 31 is waking up in hospital. The memory is much more vivid for the four people who flew into action when Corder fell to the ice.
“Based on everything that I’ve heard, they were my life savers, there’s no two ways about it,” Corder said. “Like another lease on life. Extremely lucky to be in the right place at the right time…had it happened anywhere else, I don’t think I’d be talking to you today.”