

“Am I Alright?” – Why asking yourself if you are ok matters deeply
Six months ago, completely out of the blue, my 4 year old son had a respiratory arrest at home and I had to resuscitate him on our living room carpet with my wife, Kerri, watching. The 7 minutes or so that I was performing mouth-to-mouth and cardiac compressions on my son, Elias, was the most surreal, frightening and difficult experience of my life. It looked like he was dying. The paramedics arrived and by around 10 minutes following his collapse, Elias’s pulse was present a