By ERIN MILLER Stephens Media ADVERTISING Two Good Samaritans saved Bill Quehl’s life Feb. 6. Now, Quehl and his wife of 49 years, Carolyn, want to thank those men and return a jacket someone left behind. Bill Quehl, 71, left
By ERIN MILLER
Stephens Media
Two Good Samaritans saved Bill Quehl’s life Feb. 6.
Now, Quehl and his wife of 49 years, Carolyn, want to thank those men and return a jacket someone left behind.
Bill Quehl, 71, left the couple’s Mauna Loa Village Resort condo late that Monday morning for a walk, something he does routinely, Carolyn Quehl, 68, said.
By late morning, “he just never came back,” she added.
At first, she thought he’d walked to the shoreline, maybe to watch whales. Eventually, she left the condo to look for him. Several phone calls later, she learned an unidentified person — the hospital couldn’t release any more information than that — had been brought to Kona Community Hospital. Police officers instructed her to meet them there.
That evening, the couple was airlifted to Oahu, where Bill Quehl was admitted to The Queen’s Medical Center for treatment. The following Friday, Feb. 10, he got a pacemaker. The couple, from Minneapolis, are now back in Kona, where they spend a couple of months every other year.
Carolyn Quehl later learned, from Fire Department emergency medical technicians, more about what happened to her husband.
“He went into cardiac arrest and passed out,” she said. “There were two men giving him CPR, and they called 911.”
Bill Quehl said he remembers that morning, before the walk, but little else from that day or the rest of the week. His recovery, Carolyn Quehl said, “floored” the EMTs, particularly that he had no cracked ribs from the CPR, and that he was up walking and talking.
“It’s God’s providence all the way,” Carolyn Quehl said.
The couple would like to identify the two men who performed CPR and return the jacket. They asked for either of those men to contact Mauna Loa Village Resort at 322-3466.
Email Erin Miller at emiller@westhawaiitoday.com.
