Heart to heart Greenwich’s emergency response program saves a life

Heart to heart Greenwich’s emergency response program saves a life: "Aline Cousineau began a normal day in 2005 by going to work at what was then Rogers and Goffigon, now Delaney and Long Fabrics. She didn’t feel anything out of the ordinary that morning, which was a good sign considering she had just suffered from cardiac arrest three months before. She was just getting settled into work when she suddenly collapsed. “I didn’t feel anything. I just collapsed,” she said. The sewing machines in the room were so loud no one heard her fall, she said, but there was a young man vacuuming who saw her lying on the ground. Ms. Cousineau said she didn’t know what happened after she collapsed. The first time she went into cardiac arrest her heart quickly corrected itself and she came to shortly after. Not this time — Ms. Cousineau was not waking up on her own. Luckily, Ginnie Long, a CPR volunteer and instructor, was working in the same building. "