Gile Tojek and his wife Linda went to see their grandson play basketball at his high school. Gile went to the bathroom, and that's the very last thing he remembers about that night.
Linda waited in the hallway. After a few moments, a young man came screaming out of the bathroom.
"When that kid came flying out saying there's a guy collapsed on the floor, I just had this gut feeling it had to be Gile," Linda said.
Gile was on the bathroom floor having a heart attack. Thank goodness, an off-duty nurse named Karen Behl was just a few feet away.
"I knew it was important to act fast," Karen said.
Karen began compressions and someone in the hallway got the emergency automated external defibrillator. A school trainer used the device to get Gile's heart to start again. It worked.
"Four days later, I woke up with tubes down my throat, tied to a hospital bed," Gile said.
Now he is back home, recovering with his wife. The couple are forever grateful to the nurse and the handy technology that saved his life. They even donated to Project Adam, an organization that provides schools with the life-saving equipment.
"I'm just glad I was in the right place at the right time," Karen said.
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