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WAUWATOSA (WITI) -- It is accessible to breach bottomward someone's action into moments -- some acutely greater than others. For Bob Jacobs, it was a alternation of moments that led to him accepting more.
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"I was adored in 1989, I gave myself to the Lord," Bob Jacobs said in backward August.
It was that new affiliation that afflicted Bob Jacobs' action forever, added than 24 years ago.
"I apperceive area I'm going. And in all of that time aback then, I've declared that I was not abashed of death," he added.
Every Sunday, he and his wife Victoria bless their acceptance at Falls Baptist Church in Menomonee Falls.
"We accept a appropriate marriage, a actual appropriate marriage," Victoria Jacobs said. "It wasn't 2 of us that got married. It was 3 of us. It was the Lord Jesus as a aureate cord."
To them, His role in their lives was never added axiomatic than beforehand this year. Bob was alive at The Home Depot in Wauwatosa, like he has for added than 13 years.
Patrick Hamilton has been his accessory for the accomplished few years.
"You absorb a lot of time beneath the aforementioned roof calm and you're affectionate of in the trenches. You get close." Hamilton said.
However, Patrick didn't apprehend aloof how abutting until cafeteria time on March 4th.
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"One of the assembly in aback ran up to my desk, breathlessly you know. Does anybody actuality apperceive aboriginal aid?" he said.
Patrick begin Bob benumbed and not breath in the cafeteria allowance and began assuming CPR.
"In the time I was with him he didn't accept anything, afresh he had a pulse. Afresh we absent the pulse. And afresh it came aback again." Hamilton said abandoning the day.
Minutes later, paramedics from the Wauwatosa Fire Department accustomed and took over. Stacey Lueptow, the Deputy Fire Chief was one of the responders.
"He didn't accept any pulse. And we connected with CPR," Lueptow said.
Bob was rushed to Froedtert Hospital, accident his beating and actuality active time afterwards time.
Victoria accustomed at the hospital and waited for about six hours afore she saw Bob.
"The gurnee was actuality pushed in and there was a lot of pumps and duke pumps and bodies pumping the affection and the lungs by duke to get him to the apparatus and he was convulsing. Afresh the doctors absorbed him up to the machines absolute bound and it was complete action support," she said.
Bob suffered abrupt cardiac arrest because of ventricular fibrillation. This happens aback the heart's electrical action becomes disordered. The heart's lower accommodation agitate instead of beat, consistent in little or no claret actuality pumped. Added problems added to the botheration according to Victoria.
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"There were clots all over. And white amount ache had set into the academician so abominably they said, he won't be back. If he does appear aback at all, he is acceptable to not be able to be functional. And for abiding he will not accept his personality," Victoria said.
After actuality asleep 11 altered times, Bob was put into a medically induced blackout and into ICU for 4 days. Afterwards no absolute signs for improvement, doctors apprenticed Victoria to end action support.
"I said 'okay -- can we delay and see if he wakes up and if he does, how abundant of him wakes up?'" she said to a accumulation abounding of doctors. One doctor answered.
"He said we can do that!" Victoria recalls.
The abutting morning, article changed.
"All of a abrupt I'm advancing to," Bob said. "I've got all this animate blind out of me. I've got a carotid aces here. I had 2 picks here. Another one in my leg and you're cold, you're warm, you're abounding of what's action on here? None of this is good."
Victoria was euphoric, but still cautious.
"When he opened his eyes," she said. "Can I see those babyish blues? Afresh he grinned and everybody said 'oh, he's in there.'"
Smiling she added, "they alleged him their phenomenon boy up there that week. And aback they beatific him bottomward to the cardiac unit, bodies came from added genitalia of the hospital to accommodated the Phenomenon Man from the Home Depot."
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Bob would leave ICU the abutting day, afresh the hospital 5 canicule afterwards that. He assuredly came home from a adjust centermost on his 62nd birthday, March 18th.
Bob would absorb the abutting few months comatose and convalescent from a burst sternum and ribs that he suffered during CPR.
"I feel a faculty of albatross with this. I'm abounding with awe," Bob added.
Just over 5 months later, with a defibrillator pacemaker installed to anticipate this from accident again, "The Phenomenon Man From The Home Depot" put his orange accessory on again.
Hamilton couldn't accept his acquaintance was aback on the job.
"It was affectionate of emotional. I mean, you saw Bob. It's a heck of a story. I'm animated I was able to advice him a little bit," Hamilton said.
Celebrating his acknowledgment with his co-workers, the aboriginal responders and his wife at a cafeteria time commemoration at The Home Depot, Bob discussed the event.
"I apperceive there's a reason. I've got to see somebody. I don't apperceive who. Maybe it's a lot of people. Maybe it's one person. I don't apperceive but I was acutely persevered for something. I accept a abundant added acknowledgment for what we alarm life, abundant deeper," Bob said.
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