Jessica Hoover was going out for a jog one day, then suddenly the mother collapsed in the middle of the sidewalk. Jessica was having a heart attack. Passersby huddled around her, but when David Raasch, a man on his bicycle, saw her, he knew he had to do something. David happened to be a retired heart specialist, and he hopped off his bike and performed CPR until the paramedics arrived. Jessica survived.
Sometimes, the universe has a funny way of bringing the right people to us at the right time; recently a cop saved a man's life after discovering he was having a heart attack during a routine traffic stop. After the incident, Jessica was quickly hospitalized, and her body was kept at 33 degrees for several days so that she wouldn't have permanent brain damage. That was one year ago. While today her heart functions only at 30 percent, if David hadn't been there, she wouldn't be alive. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the incident, David and Jessica had a tearful reunion. Her sons thanked David for saving their mom's life.
"Today is the day I should have died," Jessica told Fox 5's Phil Blauer. "What are the chances that someone's going to ride past me who's a medical professional."
It's almost as though David were her guardian angel. "I see your tears there and many a night I cried. Just thinking about how wonderful it is to give somebody the gift of life," he said.
See the touching reunion below and please SHARE if you think fate brought David to Jessica in that moment!
