devastated Family Mourns dad-of-Twins Days Before First Birthday
A family is reeling after a young father died unexpectedly just days before his twin daughters’ first birthday.Alex Green, 32, was found unresponsive by his partner, Amy, after falling asleep on the sofa at their home in Colchester, Essex. He was later pronounced dead at the scene.
The tragedy has left Amy and their one-year-old twins facing an unimaginable future. Friends have launched a fundraising campaign to support the family, aiming to alleviate financial burdens and provide for the girls’ future. The sudden loss underscores the importance of awareness surrounding potential underlying health conditions and the critical need for readily available CPR training.
Amy described finding Alex “blue and stiff” after he’d fallen asleep on the sofa. Paramedics were called, but sadly, nothing could be done to save him. “It still doesn’t seem real to me, I can’t put the pain into words,” she said.
A friend has started a funding page for Alex’s family. To donate, visit https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/alexgreen.
HOW TO DO CPR
Learning CPR could save someone’s life if their heart stops in public, as survival chances plummet in the minutes it takes for an ambulance to arrive.
The British Heart Foundation has free online CPR training (https://www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-help/how-to-save-a-life/how-to-do-cpr/learn-cpr-in-15-minutes).
Here are six key steps to performing CPR on an adult:
- Shake and shout: Check the area for any immediate risks and than shake and shout at the unconscious person to try to wake them.
- Check breathing: Check whether the patient is breathing by watching their chest for movement, listening and placing your cheek by their nose and mouth to feel for air. If they are breathing, put them in the recovery position.
- Call 999: Call an ambulance if they have collapsed, whether they are breathing or not. If there is another bystander, ask them to phone while you start CPR.
- Chest compressions: Kneel beside the person, place the heel of your hand on the bone in the center of their chest and place your other hand beside it and interlock your fingers. Push your bodyweight through your hands to pump their chest hard,trying to compress it by 5cm to 6cm each time. Do it twice every second, 30 times in a row.
- Rescue breaths: After 30 chest compressions, pinch the person’s nose, put your mouth over theirs and blow air into their lungs. do this twice.
- Repeat: Do another 30 chest compressions followed by another two breaths.Keep repeating until paramedics arrive.
Source: NHS (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/first-aid/cpr/)
