Facebook Is a Lifesaver

"Friends" Around the World Come to Rescue

 A 59-YR.-OLD MAN IN WALES IS GRATEFUL to his Facebook Friends today after they were able to come to his virtual rescue on September 25.  Peter Casaru woke up that morning in extreme pain and partially paralyzed when a back spasm struck him while he slept.

Australia Channel 9 News picks up the story:

The south Wales resident was unable to call an ambulance because his mobile phone battery was dead, so spent an hour crawling three metres to his laptop where he began posting calls for help on his Facebook page.

"Can someone call 999 ambulance for me, I need one now, " he wrote. Mr Casaru, who was not wearing his reading glasses, wrote in jumbled text that he had fractured his back and was stuck on the floor typing.

Mr Casaru's friends in New York and Vancouver saw his messages, calling paramedics who arrived at his house in Brecon only 20 minutes later.

A happy and friend-filled Peter Casaru
is on the road to recovery, thanks to
his Facebook friends.  (Wales News Service)

Mr. Casaru, who lives alone, told the Daily Mail (UK): 

'I could see my laptop on the table but it took me an hour-and-a half to reach it. I was literally screaming in pain every inch of the way and when I got there I realised I didn't have my glasses.

'I couldn't see the keyboard or the screen but I managed to type out a garbled message asking for help and my Facebook friends responded immediately.'

The businessman said he was close to passing out when he heard emergency services entering his home. He said: 'I was close to passing out with the pain and just lay there hoping that help was on its way. I was so relieved when the door opened and a team of paramedics walked in.'

The doctors at the hospital were able to treat Casaru successfully and after four days in the hospital he was released and ambulatory with the aid of crutches.  They said that his spasm attack could have been fatal if he had not received emergency treatment.  He injured his spine four years ago in a bicycle accident and has suffered varying degrees of pain since then.

A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesman said, "We had a number of calls thanks to the message the patient sent out on Facebook. We are glad we got to him in time and he's doing well"

Read the full story and details in the Daily Mail HERE.
The Telegraph has MORE.

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