Honey’s jury duty experience turned out pretty well. When she got to a courtroom – a Harris County Juvenile Court – she was number 41 in a pool of 50 potential jurors, and a panel was selected before they got anywhere near her.
Using the Metro Park and Ride worked flawlessly. She got downtown with time to spare, and after she was released, she only had a 10 minute wait to catch a bus headed back to Humble. A call as she got on the bus gave me just enough time to be there waiting for her when the bus arrived.
On the ride back, the lady sitting next to her told a fascinating story:
Several years ago, she and her late husband had flown to the northwest on vacation. They had arrived at their destination and were waiting in baggage claim when he fell over dead. It wasn’t his time yet, but his heart had quit beating and if not for the quick work of a nurse from the crowd who began CPR, he would not have survived.
EMS arrived and they took him to the hospital – everything turned out OK.
I’m sure that was all very exciting to them, but it’s the sort of thing that happens every day. What made this story fascinating was what came next.
Once he was stabilized and waiting for more tests, her husband told her his account of what happened. He described the events exactly as they occurred – even down to the fact that the EMS crew had to used the defibrillator paddles four times before his heart began to beat again. The only thing he got wrong was that he was sure it happened to the guy standing next to him in baggage claim.
Later, once they got him into a hospital room, he had no memory of what happened at all.
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