Their sons died of a rare heart condition 3 years apart. 1 came back to life.
In January, Sammy Berko, 16, scaled the wall at a rock climbing gym, rang the bell at the top and collapsed. Staff brought him down and a bystander began performing CPR. For two hours, paramedics, then doctors performed CPR. Their efforts weren’t enough, and Sammy was pronounced dead. For his parents, this was “the worst hell.”
“A couple times, he moved his chin upwards to try to get a breath,” Jen Berko, 45, tells TODAY.com. “My husband screams, ‘We have a heartbeat,” and the whole team came running at full pace back in because they were in disbelief.”On Jan. 7, Sammy joined friends at a local rock-climbing gym. The teen volunteered to be the first to scale the wall. At the top, he rang the bell, but he suddenly became “completely limp.” His friends thought Sammy was joking before realizing he was unconscious.
For the Berkos, this moment felt even sweeter. It seemed Sammy was getting a second chance at life that their son Frankie never did. “It was a very long night trying to keep him alive,” Craig Berko says. “His organs were massively failing, and we were told by the doctors that he’s probably going to be brain dead.”
Doctors put him on dialysis and the family continued supporting Sammy by playing music next to his ear. Sammy loves music and plays guitar, piano and drums. Then Sammy’s eyes moved.At first, doctors thought it might be a reflex. To be sure, the doctor asked Sammy questions and instructed him to blink in response.Hours later, Sammy opened his eyes and started fighting the medically induced coma.
“The doctors later told us after the fact that the CPR Sammy received must have been stellar CPR,” Jen Berko says. “That is why he doesn’t have a catastrophic brain injury.”
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