Steeming Community Contest||At My Strongest Moment|The Day I Almost Lost My Dad @sandrakez

Hello Everyone, I'll be sharing one of the scariest moment of my life. And just how strong I was in that moment.

It was a normal Wednesday evening, we had renovation going on in the house. Lots of people working in and out. I was in the kitchen preparing food. I needed to use the blender but the current just kept going low.

My dad had already been diagnosed of low blood pressure. While I was trying to switch off the power, he came out wanting to know why the light was flickering. I told him I was grinding tomatoes, he asked me to stop so he could check out why that's happening.

As he was climbing the stairs, I turned around to go into the kitchen. Just then I heard this "thump" and I saw my mom screaming. My dad had collapsed. My mom ran up the stairs, and checked his pulse(she's in the medical field). She asked me to call someone I started screaming calling for help from the workers around.

They carried him down into the sitting room. I picked up my phone and started calling my Elder sister she's a nurse. She wasn't answering. I rushed into the room got the first aid kit. A house of medical practitioners. I've never been more happy about that until that faithful day.

My mom needed to start an IV line and she just kept trembling. I didn't know how to, so I kept encouraging her to breath. He's been down for almost a minute. Everything was happening so fast. Then she got a vein and started on the IV line. Just then my sister called back, I told her what had happened and she said she was on her way.

I walked back to the room got lots of pillows. We needed to elevate his upper body. Just then he opened his eyes. I've never felt so relieved. I just walked back to the kitchen got water and he drank. And I just sat there, that was when I realized I was bleeding. I don't know at what point I got the injury.
It was a moment I had to be strong. If I wasn't i couldn't have imagined what would have happened to my mom.

He later went to a cardiologist and they suggested that he needed a pacemaker as soon as possible, that his heart was not pumping adequate blood . He got one later that month.
And that he's alive is my testimony and one of the challenging moments of the family.

_{New year church service after the surgery}

That faithful day was challenging I had to be strong, I didn't even have time to panic, cause I needed to save my dad. My story is to encourage anyone who's been in such a scary situation to be strong, that's the moment you need to be more than ever.

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I would like to invite @chuksjoseph @arinzegod @ladyofpolicy @kingmyke @samsteem1000 to join this contest and share their stories.

I would like to thank @fabio2614 @psicoparedes for creating this contest .