{"id":287472,"date":"2025-11-16T03:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287472\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T03:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:21:15","slug":"hero-saves-golf-buddys-life-when-heart-attack-hits-during-video-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287472\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero Saves Golf Buddy\u2019s Life When Heart Attack Hits During Video Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Shannon Jeffries with her golf buddy Darren Oliver \u2013 SWNS<\/p>\n

A quick-thinking woman saved her friend\u2019s life after witnessing him having a heart attack during a video call.<\/p>\n

Shannon Jeffries was about to head out into the English countryside for her weekly nine holes with buddy Darren Oliver, when the 60-year-old rang her to say he felt too unwell to play.<\/p>\n

But, as they chatted, Darren, who was sitting in his car outside his home, began to stutter and then dropped out of frame.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew immediately when I saw his face on the screen that something was very wrong, as he looked so grey.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got the words out and then started stuttering and dropped the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

With no time to lose, Shannon rang Bewdley Pines Golf Club, where staff gave her Darren\u2019s address.<\/p>\n

She raced to the scene and found him slumped over the steering wheel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI rang the ambulance straight away and the operator told me to drag him out of the car onto the ground to clear his airways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darren weighed more than 280 pounds, so that wasn\u2019t going to be possible: \u201cHe was still breathing, so I managed to push his seat back and tilt his head back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Luck and a good friend helped save Darren Oliver \u2013 SWNS<\/p>\n

Paramedics dashed to the scene but as Darren was being driven to hospital, he suffered a heart attack in the ambulance.<\/p>\n

He was resuscitated by the paramedics, but after another cardiac arrest, doctors warned her to say goodbye to her friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds daft now, but I pulled a golf ball out of my bag and put it in his hand and told him to hang on. He was squeezing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darren then underwent emergency surgery to fit two stents in his arteries which had become blocked, and recuperated in the hospital for the next two and a half weeks.<\/p>\n

In the months since his heart attack, he lost a whopping 112 pounds (8 stone) and is back playing golf with Shannon every week\u2014and the pair have since raised over $2,000 for the British Heart Foundation with a marathon 36-hole golf challenge.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m so grateful to Shannon, as it\u2019s terrible to think what might have been if she hadn\u2019t got to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve still got Shannon\u2019s golf ball. It\u2019s a Titleist, so she\u2019s not having it back. I carry it in my bag as a reminder always.\u201d<\/p>\n

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SHARE THE HEARTWARMING STORY With Your Golf Buddies on Social Media\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shannon Jeffries with her golf buddy Darren Oliver \u2013 SWNS A quick-thinking woman saved her friend\u2019s life after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,36506,755,137,5232,64526,38644,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-287472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-emergency","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-heart","14":"tag-lucky","15":"tag-rescue-stories","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}