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Gainesville man owes his life to personal trainers, gym patron
Counte Cooley survives heart attack thanks to strangers
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Electronic Sales Co. president Counte Cooley is an avid racquetball player, but recently he collapsed following a game at LA Fitness in Buford. Three people performed CPR on him, helping to save his life. Now, the 69-year-old Gainesville man wears an automatic external defibrillator vest under his shirt to monitor his heart and administer a shock if necessary. - photo by NAT GURLEY
“I didn’t have a pulse and I wasn’t breathing. But I was by the time they got through with me,” Counte Cooley said of surviving a recent cardiac arrest. Just four days before, Cooley, owner of Electronic Sales Co. in Gainesville, had returned from Fullerton, Calif.