The chilling story of the Luton Town captain who had his heart stop for two minutes: “The defibrillator revived me”

December 16th They played on the 17th premier league He Bournemouth against him Luton City. It was just another English league match, but any day now in the 59th minutethe captain of the Hatters, Tom LockyeR, He collapsed in the middle of the field. The doctors immediately attended to him, took him out on a stretcher and the game was suspended. He had suffered cardiac arrest.

“I was running towards the halfway line and I felt dizzy. I remember thinking ‘I’ll be fine in a second’ and in the end I wasn’t.said the Luton Town captain sky sports in the match preview with Manchester United by date 25.

His heart stopped for two and a half minutes.. The Welsh player said that thanks to the prompt intervention of the doctors he managed to save himself: “I needed the defibrillator to revive me. I sincerely thank the paramedics and team doctors involved, because without them I wouldn’t be here.”.

The diagnosis was an episode of atrial fibrillation what happens when the upper part of the heart beats four times faster than he owes. Five days after the scare in Vitality stagewas discharged after a successful procedure to place a automatic implantable defibrillator.

this isn’t the first time Locker collapses on a playing field, a similar thing happened in May during the victory in the final of the championship of Football League Championship which gave them the promotion to premier. “Last time I woke up almost from a dream, this time I woke up out of nowhere. I was a little disoriented, I couldn’t speak or move, I was just trying to understand what was happening”.

The most surprising thing in the defender’s story is that he thought so he could die at that very moment and not being able to move or respond seemed surreal. It’s still undergoing further testing, then His return to the fields is an enigma.

Eriksen, Blind and Wyke: similar cases

Locker He looked for other players who had similar heart problems to his, as was the case with Cristiano Eriksen, Blind Daley AND Charlie Wyke. “Something common to all of them is that they took the time to process what happened. I don’t know if I processed it, but maybe because we, as athletes, are capable of dealing with things differently and compartmentalizing.” ..

The image of Cristiano Eriksen surrounded by his companions during the Euro 2020 he toured the world. Today’s player Manchester United he had collapsed on the playing field after suffering a cardiac arrest that stopped your heart for five minutes. The player had to wait 18 months to play again.

In case of Blind Daley It’s very similar to that of Welsh player because when I was inside Ajax He suffered two cardiac arrests. After the first one they put a defibrillator on him and Eight months later he collapsed again but thanks to the defibrillator he was saved.

In November 2021, Charlie Wyke suffered cardiac arrest while training Wigan Athletic and his heart stopped for four minutes. After ten months the player returned to the field.

“We will be attentive to what the doctors and specialists indicate, but if there is the possibility of being able to play again, and I will not do anything against their recommendations, then I would like to do it.”– added the captain of the Luton City.

At the moment Locker sees the possibility of playing again as something very distant because he is focused on the birth of his baby AND to finish his medical studies.