"My kids brought me back from brink of death" Dad speaks of moment his heart stopped in sleep

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When dad Michael Welsh and his wife, Alison, gave life to their two children, they could never have imagined that their son and daughter would go on to bring him back from the brink of death after suffering a cardiac arrest in his sleep.In the early hours of January 2 last year, Alison Welsh was awakened by a terrible sound coming from husband, Michael.Thinking he was snoring, she elbowed him in his sleep.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Suspecting he had a cold coming on, he took an early night.“My daughter, Rachel, had had a New Year party with pals and it went on quite late,” said Michael, 55. “I thought it was tiredness.

To be honest, I had been feeling a bit weird for a couple of months.“ I’d had a fluttering of the heart. I’d been fit all my life.