The apple watch actually saved my life: Here's how

The first thing I do every day is put on my

watch

and as soon as I put it on I looked at it and it made a sound that I had never heard before, I would have had no idea it had made it. that health problem if I didn't have my Apple

watch

I was looking for my phone I couldn't see and as I was feeling my wrist it felt like it was almost like my hand collided with my wrist I was like oh my gosh. my watch is on so i told siri to call 9-1-1 when the police got the message to the emergency phone number and asked my wife if she was married to tor it almost wasn't the first thing she said , he basically yelled and it's. is he dead or something my name is Casey Anderson and I'm 26 years old and I currently live in Florida my name is Jason so Shay I'm 45 years old and I'm from Orlando Florida my name is Heather Hendershot I'm 27 years old and I'm currently in Pomona Kansas my name is Toro Austin I live in Oslo Norway and I'm 68 years old, so I've had an Apple watch since they came out, this is my third.

I didn't have any other type of wearable device before Apple. Look, honestly, I never used any. I'm not a jewelry person. I always play sports. I don't want to have to put this on and take it off. I've always been a, you know, I've always had an iPhone, etc. When this became available, I jumped on it. I've been a computer journalist for over thirty years and have been covering a lot of Apple technology and became very interested in finding out how the Apple Watch could help monitor my health specs. I don't remember anything at all, but because of Lea's reactions it caused, we've been able to more or less piece together what happened.

It was like a Friday night, my husband and I had just put the kids to bed. I was sitting t

here

watching TV, my watch, you know, seemed like a little kid saying "hey, your resting heart rate has been above 120 for 10 minutes." I just brushed it off, I didn't think anything of it because I'm super. athletic I've always been very healthy the morning I woke up I looked down and it said I had atrial fibrillation so as soon as I saw that I put it aside and didn't really pay any attention. I mean it was like 6:20 after 6 p.m. one Wednesday night and it was dark and it was raining and I was thinking about going home to put the baby in, suddenly I felt a huge force on the left side and behind my car and we were thrown like in our car in several yards .

I had been at a dinner with a friend out of town and I went to bed around 1 o'clock and the first thing I remember was lying t

here

with a terrible pain in my head. face and I touched my face and the blood and I knew that when I got to work I didn't feel like myself, several of my coworkers saw me at work and said are you okay? and I said, yeah, why do they say You're white as a ghost. I said yes. I said I'm having some trouble breathing. You know, I have some trouble breathing.

So I looked at my watch at work and again it said I was eighth up so I drove to the emergency room and as soon as I got there the cardiac team came up to me and told me I was about to go into arrest cardiac because it was so bad that my heart rate jumped to 160 and on Saturday morning it was still alerting me. that my heart was too high, so that's when I went into Urgent Care just because my husband is a worrier, so just to have everything checked out, but for me I still felt fine, so my mind was like, oh Oh my god, making a big thing about this like this is no big deal and then they told me they were going to take me to the ICU and that's when, like my eyes were open, I thought I was going to the ICU like a holy cow, my face hit the steering wheel, I held back, hit the The back or front of my head was resting on my Heat and then I was thrown forward and to the side of the window, so that my head and neck took most of the of the body and, um, I couldn't see it as much as I could.

I heard my son scream. He could smell gasoline dripping into the car. The first thing I could think of was Parker. He's fine, and I can hear him screaming. 60 seconds for me to, you know, refocus my vision and it was still a little blurry, you know, but during that time I looked for my phone and I couldn't find it, I couldn't seal the bag. I mean, we called 911 with Siri and then all of a sudden. The light came on in the dorm room and there were three uniformed police officers there and the host, my friend, if he was busy visiting him, then what happened was that and they started asking me if I had called medical emergency and I hadn't called.

I didn't, of course, that's the least I didn't know about it, so I immediately thought that this was the clock that had been activated by my accident, so literally a week later I went, I came home from work, I had dinner, I was sitting on my couch and I just couldn't catch my breath, I was like and I was like a mess, the same thing that happened to me a week before, so, boy, I drove to the hospital again, which I probably should have done, and so soon as I got to the emergency room and they told me you were in atrial fibrillation again and it was for my watch because they told me I was in a thyroid storm, which in my opinion is where your thyroid goes crazy and causes your body goes crazy. they threw me off a little bit, they kept me hooked up to monitors, you know, they gave me some medications intravenously to lower my heart rate and I followed up with an endocrinologist and that's when they diagnosed me with hyperthyroidism when I was able to tell them I had an accident and they were able to say immediately where I was without me really knowing, so when my husband got there, luckily there was already an ambulance at the intersection, you know, a couple of minutes away, so they got there right away and took my my son out. from a car, he pulled me out of the car, my husband was there at the same time as the ambulance, so I was able to hold my son Parker.

I mean about five minutes after the accident, that's how quickly they came. and later we discovered, by looking at my watch in the Apple system log, that I had gotten up around quarter past four in the morning probably to go to the bathroom and when I walked into that room I suddenly fainted while I was still standing, I fell with my head hitting the ground first, my chin bone was pressed and I had broken bones around my eye, not a single person stopped, apart from the police officer and my husband's ambulance, that was like no one. another person stopped to help, so I feel like if I hadn't made that call or had my watch, I don't know if anyone would have been able to do it first on Arc, it's a busy street, a major highway is very dangerous.

I don't know what would have happened, we can just decorate, but I don't think my

life

was in danger, but on the other hand I had injuries, I had injuries and they say that it is important to get to the hospital as soon as possible in such situations. one case so I think I was in four different hospitals in the first week after this happened so there was a lot of things they wanted to go over and on Sunday they weren't talking about surgery and stuff and if I had just been dying there until the morning and then opening with extreme headlines that come to the doctors at all, could have lasted a long time and probably

saved

me from that existence.

I was considered the Apple Watch patient of the night at the hospital. They're like, oh hey, your nap watch station, right, yeah, because my Apple Watch was the only thing that told me something was wrong at that moment. You know we get to the hospital and you know they're evaluating us and when things calm down, I just kept looking at my watch and I thought I don't have my phone yet, but my phone is somewhere, I don't know if it has to be nearby, but they took the bags, they took everything they could out of the car with us. when they transported us, so at this point I'm fine, well I guess I'll call my mom now under my supervision and let her know I'm in the hospital, one of the reasons I feel like I've had a lot of use of the systems Apple Watch health monitoring is, of course, that I have what they call underlying health issues that need to be monitored, so I feel like the monitoring has made me a little more confident in combination with being a frequent visitor to the Apple Watch's office. doctor.

Since all this happened, my watch hasn't told me I was in atrial fibrillation again. I'm sure that's because of the medication I'm on, but I think it'll probably be an ongoing thing for me for the rest of it. of my

life

and you know it's good that I have this watch so you know it can help me monitor