Strangers who helped each other reunite
AP
In this photo provided by Mayo Clinic Health System, Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada sits in his hospital room on Nov. 16, 2011 in Eau Claire, Wis. Giesbrecht, 61, expressed his gratitude to first responders and to Sara Berg, the Eau Claire woman who administered CPR minutes after he helped her change a tire. Giesbrecht and his wife, Ann, were driving to Indiana Nov. 5 when they saw Berg, 40, and her cousin, Lisa Meier, stopped on the side of Interstate 94 with a flat tire. Giesbrecht pulled over and helped change their flat tire. Minutes after driving away, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness. Berg, a certified nursing assistant, discovered that Giesbrecht wasn?t breathing, she started CPR. (AP Photo/Mayo Clinic Health System)
In this photo provided by Mayo Clinic Health System, Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada sits in his hospital room on Nov. 16, 2011 in Eau Claire, Wis. Giesbrecht, 61, expressed his gratitude to first responders and to Sara Berg, the Eau Claire woman who administered CPR minutes after he helped her change a tire. Giesbrecht and his wife, Ann, were driving to Indiana Nov. 5 when they saw Berg, 40, and her cousin, Lisa Meier, stopped on the side of Interstate 94 with a flat tire. Giesbrecht pulled over and helped change their flat tire. Minutes after driving away, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness. Berg, a certified nursing assistant, discovered that Giesbrecht wasn?t breathing, she started CPR. (AP Photo/Mayo Clinic Health System)
In this photo provided by Mayo Clinic Health System, Sara Berg hugs Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in his hospital room on Nov. 16, 2011 in Eau Claire, Wis. Giesbrecht, 61, expressed his gratitude to first responders and to Sara Berg, the Eau Claire woman who administered CPR minutes after he helped her change a tire. Giesbrecht and his wife, Ann, were driving to Indiana Nov. 5 when they saw Berg, 40, and her cousin, Lisa Meier, stopped on the side of Interstate 94 with a flat tire. Giesbrecht pulled over and helped change their flat tire. Minutes after driving away, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness. Berg, a certified nursing assistant, discovered that Giesbrecht wasn?t breathing, she started CPR. (AP Photo/Mayo Clinic Health System)
In this photo provided by Mayo Clinic Health System, Sara Berg talks with Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in his hospital room on Nov. 16, 2011 in Eau Claire, Wis. Giesbrecht and his wife, Ann, were driving to Indiana Nov. 5 when they saw Berg, 40, and her cousin, Lisa Meier, stopped on the side of Interstate 94 with a flat tire. Giesbrecht pulled over and helped change their flat tire. Minutes after driving away, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness. Berg, a certified nursing assistant, discovered that Giesbrecht wasn?t breathing, she started CPR. (AP Photo/Mayo Clinic Health System)
Victor and Ann Giesbrecht of Wiinipeg, Canada have a reunion in Eau Claire, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 with the people involved with saving his life after he suffered cardiac arrest Nov. 5, 2011 while driving on Interstate 94. Sara Berg, left, who assisted Berg early with a flat tire, Performed CPR on Victor until law enforcement arrived. Berg is a certified nursing assistant with Mayo Clinic Health System. (AP Photo/The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Shane Opatz)
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) ? A motorist who had a heart attack but was kept alive by a stranger whom just minutes earlier he had stopped to help along a Wisconsin interstate has had a tearful reunion with that woman and the first responders who saved his life.
Victor Giesbrecht, 61, expressed his gratitude Wednesday to Sara Berg, the Eau Claire woman who performed CPR on him just a few miles further along the Interstate 94 from where he had helped her to change a tire.
"He said 'thank you' and we hugged, then we both started crying," Berg told the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. First responders also attended the reunion at Giesbrecht's room at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire. Giesbrecht hoped to be released Thursday.
Giesbrecht, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and his wife, Ann, were driving to Indiana Nov. 5 when they saw Berg, 40, and her cousin, Lisa Meier, stopped on the side of the interstate with a flat tire. Giesbrecht pulled over, retrieved a jack from his pickup and helped change the flat.
Minutes after driving away, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness. His wife brought their pickup to a stop and called 911. Then along came the women whom Giesbrecht had just helped. When Berg, a certified nursing assistant, discovered that Giesbrecht wasn't breathing, she started CPR. First responders arrived a short time later and used an automated external defibrillator to restore a normal heart rhythm.
"If she wouldn't have come along, I don't think we'd be here right now," Giesbrecht said.
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