A close encounter with a 'widow maker' heart attack made Greg Page, the original yellow-shirted member of the children's music group The Wiggles, decide to help prevent deaths from cardiac arrest.
SBS On Demand I don't often think about the fact that I nearly died — but I did. When someone suffers a cardiac arrest, their heart stops. And when our heart stops, we stop. Generally, because our bodies require blood flow around the body to keep us alive, without the heart beating, there is no coming back from that.
Without the electrical impulses telling the muscle what to do, it doesn't know how to beat — and the heart ends up in cardiac arrest. That's exactly what happened to me. There had been no warning, no symptoms — nothing. I collapsed to the floor, thinking that I was simply exhausted from a tough show — a familiar feeling, usually when we were performing in a hot space or if we'd done multiple shows in a day.
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