20-year-old Michael Pruitt was working on a construction job in Michigan when a bolt of electricity suddenly went from a power light through the ladder he had been holding
Speaking about the incident, he said to TODAY: “It was like a tase, but just so much more electricity and that’s when everything just shut off.”
Pruitt and his stepfather, who was also working on the construction job, had been working at the home of Katelyn Vines, who was a nurse. She immediately ran out and performed CPR on him.
Pruitt was taken to Beaumont Hospital in Farmington Hills where he remembers seeing many tubes connected to his body.
“It took like six or seven people to hold me down,” he recalled. “I was just still going at it. And the doctors were saying how happy they were because (if) he’s putting up this much of a fight, he’s got to be still there.”
Doctors did their best to keep him alive, estimating he was without a heartbeat for 20 minutes.
Dr. Angela Chudler said: “He had no vital signs.”
“So we had this young boy who’s dead coming in,” she said.
The 20-year-old explained they got the defibrillator on, ‘turned it up,’ shocked him and continued CPR until they felt a pulse.
“I definitely would call it a miracle,” said Dr. Chudler. “Luckily he went down at a nurse’s home because […] right away his heart was pumped, circulation was going through his body, through his brain, and without that you have no oxygen to your tissues, and he would’ve never been who he is today.”
Pruitt added: “I think I woke up that day because I just feel like it really wasn’t my time to go because I’m destined to do greater things and help people.
“I’ve always told everyone I’m going to be a superhero one day, and then this happens. And I tell everyone, ‘Yup, every superhero needs a good death’.”
Jillian Pruitt, his mother, said: “I think it’s every parent’s worst nightmare. I don’t think you ever want that call that there’s something wrong with your child.”
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