health
The kindness of strangers: I had a heart attack while mountain biking and someone saved my bicycle
I heard the ambulance siren getting closer. And then a voice: ‘Where do you live? We’ll take your bike home for you’
TL;DR
- The author, a specialist anaesthetist, suffered a heart attack while mountain biking.
- They managed to reach their car and call an ambulance.
- A stranger waited with the author until the ambulance arrived.
- This stranger also took the author's mountain bike home for safekeeping.
- The author survived the heart attack (coronary thrombosis) and is trying to find the stranger to thank them.