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Jim Kitsock was a real-life angel for a woman who nearly died in a local church this month.
Just before communion at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Attleboro on May 15, a woman stopped breathing. Other parishioners noticed her condition when she failed to stand up with the rest of the congregation.
Once he realized what was going on, Kitsock lept into action, pulling the unconscious woman from her pew and into the aisle where he gave her chest compressions and performed CPR.
“Her face was turning blue and I couldn’t get a pulse and she was limp,” Kitsock told Gene Valicenti on the WPRO Morning News.
The woman’s prospects looked bleak, and the priest thought she was dying.
“I was in the middle of CPR when [the priest] gave her her last rites,” he said. The parishioners also started reciting the “Our Father.”
But Kitsock didn’t give up, and while the priest and parishioners prayed, he continued CPR.
“Finally her eyes came around and she started breathing on her own,” he said.
When she awoke, she asked the priest for a bit of communion. Eventually, the EMTs came.
Kitsock said the woman is doing “fine” now.
“It was a lot to take in,” he said.
Kitsock told the Sun Chronicle this was the first time he had ever performed CPR on someone.
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