Robert Kiefer:  

Bob Kiefer Report from Old Man’s, San Onofre, CA TRUE STORY: One Miracle After Another… On February 25, 2019 at San Onofre surfing beach, I had a heart attack. By the time I got to the hospital in Mission Viejo, my heart had stopped beating, I wasn’t breathing, and my body temp had dropped to 91 degrees. I was for the most part a DOA. As soon as I arrived at the ER at Mission Hospital, the ER team defibrillated me, hooked me up to a heart pump, and put a breathing tube down my airway. Once they were able to regain my pulse, the docs and nurses stuck me with a myriad of ingoing and outgoing tubes and wires. The array of monitors looked like the command bridge on the Star Ship Enterprise. I don’t remember any of this since I was unconscious then and for the next eight days. Minutes later, when my wife and daughter arrived at the ER, they were told that I had less than a 50/50 chance of surviving. For the next eight days, I was sedated with a combination of fentanyl and propofol. Technically, I wasn’t in a coma, but I was flat on my back and immobile so that’s probably what it looked like to anyone who saw me during the week that followed. The whole time I was in the Cardiac Intensive Care unit, the doctors and nurses worked their asses off to keep me alive. Thanks to their training, skill, and dedication, I did survive. I recently completed rehab. A big “Thank You” goes to two of my long-time surfing mates, Mick Rosien and Don Crai...Expand for more