The apple watch actually saved my life: Here's how By CNET

Very first thing: I do every day is I put my watch on and when, as soon as I put my watch on I looked at it, and it made a sound that I was I've never heard before. I would have had no idea that I had that health issue. If I did not have my Apple Watch, I was feeling around for my phone I couldn't see and as I'm feeling around I felt my wrist like it's almost like my hand, bumps into my wrist I was like. Oh my gosh. My watch is on, so I told Siri to call 9-1-1 when the police got the message to the emergency telephone number and asked my wife and asked if she was married to tor almost not the first thing. She basically said cried out, and is he dead or something? My name is Casey Anderson, and I am 26 years old, and I currently live in Florida.

My name is Jason, so Shay I am 45 years old and from Orlando Florida my name is Heather Henderson I'm 27 years old, and I am currently in Pomona Kansas. My name is Too Austin I live in Oslo, Norway, and I'm 68 years old, so I've owned an Apple Watch since they came out. This is my third one. I did not have any other type of wearable before the Apple Watch, honestly I never wore any I'm, not a jewelry wearing person, I'm, always playing sports I. Don't want to have to take this on and off I've always been a know, I've always had an iPhone, and so when this became available, I jumped on I've been a computer journalist for more than thirty years, and I've been covering Apple technology.

A lot and I got very interested on finding out how the Apple Watch could help to monitor sign specs of my health. Actually I, don't remember anything at all, but due to the Lea reactions it sort of caused, we have been able to more or less reconstruct what do what happened? It was a like a Friday night, my husband and I had just laid the kids down. So I was just sitting watching TV my watch. You know kind of made like a little ping boy saying: hey your resting heart rate has been above 120 for 10 minutes, I, just kind of brushed it off didn't think anything of it, because I'm super athletic I've always been very healthy. The morning that I woke up I look down, and it said that I was in aphid.

So as soon as I saw that I kind of just put it off to the side, I didn't really pay any attention to it. I want to say it was like 6:20 after 6 p. m. on a Wednesday night, and it was dark, and it was raining, and I was in the mindset. I'm going to go home, get the baby settled all of a sudden.

Furthermore, I felt this huge just force on the left, side and kind of behind my car, and we got like thrown like in our car. Multiple yards I had been at a dinner, and some friend outside of town and I went to bed around 1 o'clock and the first thing I remember: I was lying there having a terrible pain in the head in the face and I touched my face, and blood and I knew when I got to work. I was not feeling like myself. Several of my co-workers saw me at work, and they were like. Are you okay and I'm, like yeah? Why they're like you're white? As a ghost I said yeah I said I'm having a little trouble breathing you know have some breathing problems.

So I look back down in my watch at work and again said that I was an eighth up, so I drove myself to the emergency room and as soon as I got there. The cardiac team got right on me and said that I was close to going into cardiac arrest because I was in such bad, a heart rate jumped up to 160 and Saturday morning. It was still alerting me that my heart, it was too high. So that's when I went in to Urgent Care, just because my husband's a worrywart so just to have everything checked out, but to me, I still, I still felt fine. So my mind I was like oh, my gosh, making a big thing about this like this is no big deal, and then they told me they were taking me into ICU, and that's when, like my eyes were open, I was like I'm going to ICU like holy cow.

My face hit. The steering wheel, keep back hit the back of the or the front of my head rest on my Heat, and then it flung me back forward and into the side onto the window. So my head and my neck like took most low and um I, couldn't see it all. I could hear my son screaming I could smell gas leaking in the car? The first thing I could think of was Parker. Okay and I can hear him screaming I'm like kind of reaching I like.

Could it like I just felt like so lethargic it took about 60 seconds for me to you, know, refocus my vision, and it was still a little. You know blurry, but during that time I reached for my phone couldn't find it couldn't seal the bag. I mean we called 911 one off Siri and then suddenly the light came on in the room, the bedroom, and there were three uniformed policemen there and the host my friend if I was busy visiting. So what had happened in was that, and they started asking me if I had called medical emergency called, and I hadn't done. That, of course, is the least I hadn't known about it.

So I immediately thought this was the watch that had been triggered by my accident. So literally one week later, I went I got home from work, I had dinner, I was sitting on my couch and I, just I couldn't catch. My breath I was like, and it was like a wreck, the same thing that happened to me a week before, so I guy I, again drove myself to the hospital which I probably should have done, and as soon as I got to the emergency room, they said you're you're in aphid again, and it was because of my watch because they told me I was in thyroid storm, which is pretty much in my opinion, where your thyroid just going crazy and making your body go a little out of whack. They kept me hooked up to monitors. They, you know, gave me some drugs IV to get my heart rate down, and I followed up with an endocrinologist, and that's when we diagnosed me with hyperthyroidism when I was able to tell them I got in a crash, they were able to immediately tell like where I was at without me than really knowing.

So by the time my husband got there, there was already, thankfully, ambulance at the intersection. You know a couple of minutes away, so they got there immediately. They pulled my son out of a car. He pulled me out of the car. My husband was there at the same time as the ambulance was there, so I was able to hold my son Parker I, want to say about five minutes into the crash.

That's how quick they were there and later on. We found out by checking my watch in the registration on the Apple system that I had got out of bed around quarter past four in the morning, probably for a visit to the toilet and when I entered that room, I suddenly fainted, while I was still standing. Full upright fell with my head hitting the floor first and my chin bone was pressed in, and I had broken bones around the eye. Not a single person stopped other than the police officer and the ambulance of my husband. That was it like.

Nobody else stopped to help so I for me. I feel like if I didn't make that call or have my watch I, don't know that anybody would have been able to really first of Arc's it's such a busy street some major highway, very dangerous I, don't know what would have happened. We can just decorate, but I don't think my life has per se was danger, but on the other hand, I had injury had injuries, and they say it's important to get to hospital as soon as possible. In such a case, so I think I was in four different hospitals during the first week after this had happened. So there were a lot of things they wanted to check up and Sunday they weren't discussing surgery and stuff, and if I had just been dying there till the morning and then open up with extreme headlining that come to the doctors at all, it would have been could have been lasting for a long time, and I was probably saved from that exist.

I was deemed the Apple Watch patient of the night in the hospital they're like oh hey, your nap watch station right yeah, because my Apple Watch was the only thing telling me that something's wrong. At that point. You know we got to the hospital and just you know, we're getting assessed and as things calm down I just kept looking down at my watch, and I was like I still don't have my phone, but my phone is somewhere I, don't know it has to be near, but they took the bags. They took everything they could out of the car with us when we got transported. So at this point, I'm just like okay, well, I guess, I'll call my mom now on my watch and let her know I'm in the hospital.

One of the reasons I feel I've had a lot of use of the Apple Watch. Health monitoring systems is, of course, I have what they call underlying health issues that need to be monitored. So I feel that monitoring has made me a little more safe in the combination of being a frequent visitor to the doctor's office. Since all this has happened, my watch does not told me that I was in aphid again I'm sure that accounts to the medicine that I'm taking. But you know it's I think it's going to be probably an ongoing thing for me for the rest of my life, and you know it's good that I have this watch so that if you know, can help me monitor.

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