Editor-in-Chief Reports on His Recent Illness - Herbert W Armstrong - February 1978

Herbert W Armstrong

This is the first time I have had opportunity to write you in quite some time. As you probably know, I have been very ill with what the doctor has termed "heart failure." At the beginning of this illness, in my home in Tucson, Arizona, my heart had completely stopped and I had stopped breathing. Fortunately, a nurse which I had in my home to help and to watch over me - because I had absolutely refused to go to a hospitaldiscovering that my face was ashen white, went to work immediately along with my wife's sister on mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Using steady, repeated pressure on my chest, after some thirty seconds they brought me back, but, as the nurse has said since, it was "touch and go" for some little time before I began to breath naturally. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library