Broken toe, grandpa saved

«It was an ordinary Thursday. My wife and I were visiting my son's family in Basel. My grandchild had injured her foot and I took her to the paediatrician. I already felt a pain in my chest in the car park of the doctor's surgery. However, the pain was gone again at the doctor's surgery. 

The paediatrician diagnosed my granddaughter with a possible toe fracture, which we should have checked out at the UKBB. On the way back to the car, I could no longer carry my granddaughter. I felt renewed pain in my chest area.

At the UKBB, I was given a parking space right in front of the entrance, but I knew that I could no longer carry my granddaughter. I went to the emergency department and wanted to ask for a wheelchair. The carer in the emergency department looked at me, asked: „Are you unwell?“ and asked me to sit down.

Then it was no longer an ordinary Thursday.

I am missing essential moments of the help that was then initiated. The nurse in the emergency department recognised with her „clinical eye“ that I was suffering from a heart attack. She made sure that I was taken to the intensive care unit at the university hospital in good time.

Dear team at the children's hospital. With you, prudent, hands-on and professional guardian angels brought me back to life. It shouldn't sound macabre, but thank God I had my heart attack with you! Thank you!»