Sheriff’s Deputies Save Taycheedah Man’s Life
21 June 2018 News
Thursday a Town of Taycheedah man and his wife met the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s deputies who saved his life after he suffered a near fatal heart attack on June 5th. Ron Bohlman had just returned from fishing and wasn’t feeling well when he collapsed. A Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s dispatcher talked his wife Mary through doing chest compressions. Deputies Logan Will, Cody Sokolik, Greg Anderson and Sheriff Mick Fink responded along with Mt. Calvary Ambulance to the residence. Deputy Sokolik began chest compressions, while Deputy Will used an AED. During the rescue effort one shock was administered. Bohlman soon regained consciousness and began breathing on this own. He was taken to St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac. He learned while he was there that the heart attack wasn’t the only threat to his life. He says, “You know there were other complications that went along with this in the process of looking for what was going on here they did a CAT scan and they found that I have a cancer in my right lung. They wouldn’t have found that if they hadn’t found this so.” Bohlman was in fact dead, but the deputies’ efforts saved his life. Deputy Anderson teaches other deputies about CPR and how to use an AED. He says Bohlman is the first person to suffer a heart attack who has been able to thank him personally for his efforts. He says, “In the five years I have been doing this you are the first person who has actually walked back in here, lived and been able to shake our hand for it and it is an incredible feeling for me.” Bohlman had retired just three days before suffering his heart attack. He says he is grateful to the deputies for a second chance at life.
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