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Father Raising Money For AEDs After Long Island Coaches Save Son's Life Father Raising Money For AEDs After Long Island Coaches Save Son's Life
Father Raising Money For AEDs After Long Island Coaches Save Son's Life Nearly a year after the quick thinking of Long Island coaches saved the life of a student who went into cardiac arrest, the teen’s father is honoring the school and raising awareness about the importance of AEDs. On Dec. 6, 2022, Patrick Kellachan received a call that he said would become “forever be cemented” in his brain: “PJ has been stabilized and is breathing with the assistance of a respirator.” His then-17-year-old son, PJ, had collapsed during basketball practice at Chaminade High School in Mineola, suffering a seizure and eventually going into cardiac arrest.  Earlier Re…

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