LifeSaving Stories
Because of You…
Thousands of survivors have become living proof that generous financial support of Medic One Foundation makes a significant difference—mothers, fathers, children—the stories abound of lives saved and families kept intact, because of you.
Many residents have a special place in their hearts for Medic One, as do their families and friends. Here are but a few of the “life-saving stories” that are directly attributable to the exceptional quality of emergency care services made possible by the Medic One Foundation. If you have a life-saving story to share, please click here.
“It is unbelievable when you are a recipient of that sort of care because it simply saved my life. It is the thing that’s between me being here and me not being here.”
Sue Nixon
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivor
“If anything different would have happened, I wouldn’t be here. Thank you for doing what you do.”
Tristan Piliaris
“Life is good for my now. This has made me come to realize what I am grateful for. I wake up happy that I’m here, happy I’m alive with a smile on my face. We should support paramedics because they’re there when we need them the most.”
Ryker Schellings
“I’m very appreciative to the folks that worked on me, people that came to my house, took me to the helipad, and performed CPR on me. How do they do that for 45 minutes? I’m really appreciative that they didn’t give up.”
Tim Wentzel
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivor
“I want to let the firefighters and paramedics know how grateful I am to them for choosing to go out there and be in the communities every day saving lives and being heroes—I would not be here without them.”
Lauren Drown
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivor
“Medic One is a life sustaining organization. It’s not just protecting the life of the fallen individual; they are holding the lives together of entire families.”
Duane Dunk
Medic One Foundation Supporter
“I had the best in my living room, they were the best chance she could have ever had, and they were there. I will do everything that I possibly can to fund and help them.”
John Glasser
Medic One Foundation Supporter
“I have no doubt in my mind that if it wasn’t for Medic One, I wouldn’t have survived.”
Jim Rodrigues
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivor
“I believe that the paramedics here have two things going for them. Clearly, it’s the training and their attitude about their job and about what they’re motivated to do every day—to keep going, to keep working on someone as long as there is any hope or any chance of saving that life.”
Doug Thomas
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivor
“I’m here today because of the training that the paramedics receive, and the culture that Medic One instills in them is that you keep going. If there is any sign of life, you don’t give up.”
Stephanie Arnold
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivor
“They’re guardian angles; I have to say they’re just guardian angels. The job that the paramedics and firemen did by saving my daughter—saved me, saved my husband, and saved my son.”
Kathy Oosterhof
Medic One Foundation Supporter
“I can’t thank the paramedics and the Medic One Foundation enough for the work they do in our community. They change people’s lives; they save people’s lives.”
Heather Kelley
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivor
“Not only did you save me, you saved my family, you saved my friends, everybody who loves me. You guys are my angels.”
Alexis Curran
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivor
“The things they save are not just that body in the ambulance. They’re saving everyone associated with that person. They saved all of us. Medic One gave us our future.”
Anne Kennedy
Medic One Foundation Supporter
“If these paramedics had not trained as hard as they had, if they weren’t as quick at getting to our home, then we would have had a different outcome, and I wouldn’t have my wife today and that’s a huge blessing.”
Jon Cole
Medic One Foundation Supporter
“Dr. Copass and Dr. Vedder are really nice, they’re my heroes. I wouldn’t be like this right now if they weren’t there.”
Lily James
Medic One Foundation Supporter
“I could see how emotional the experience was for them. They put everything into bringing him back.”
Jennie Locati
Medic One Foundation Supporter
“I’m just so grateful that this amazing man still gets to be my husband, and that my son gets to grow up knowing the kind of man that he could be and that he should be.”
Sarah Archibald Daniel, MD
Medic One Foundation Supporter