Footballer Adam Dodd, who suffered a cardiac arrest in his sleep, wants more people to learn life-saving CPR.
Adam Dodd is back playing football for non-league Bamber Bridge after being fitted with a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator under his skinIt was a Friday night - just like countless Friday nights before it - for Adam Dodd, a popular left-sided player with non-league FC United of Manchester.
More than two years on - and back playing football for non-league Lancashire team Bamber Bridge - Dodd is urging all supporters to learn CPR. "I remember the day Adam woke up from the coma. He recognised me and it was just the best moment," recalls Kat.Three weeks after being admitted, Dodd was discharged from hospital after being fitted with a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator under his skin, which sends electrical pulses to regulate abnormal heart rhythms."I got pneumonia while I was in a coma and my left lung partially collapsed," says Dodd.
"I was pinching myself and asking myself if this was real," says Dodd, who has played at left-back and in midfield. "It was a miracle I was playing again." Dodd is forever grateful for the way FC United of Manchester supporters rallied to support him and Kat while he was in hospital and unable to work, raising £7,670 to help pay his mortgage while he recovered.Two months ago the couple got married in an emotional ceremony in front of close family and friends before enjoying a honeymoon in South Africa and Zanzibar.
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