overworked entrepreneur tells how he came back from the dead

by time news

STORY – After a very serious heart attack, the leader of the Alchimie company, Nicolas d’Hueppe, urges his leaders not to play with their health.

He is not seen in the photo above, taken at his home in mid-May. Nicolas d’Hueppe, founder and ex-CEO of Alchimie, a video production platform for thematic channels recently listed on the stock market, died a year ago.

Precisely on May 9, 2021, at 11 a.m., when his heart stopped for fifty-three minutes: this father of four collapsed after an intense two-hour session of road cycling. His luck?

Three cyclists – two gendarmes and a doctor – followed him closely. A cardiac massage saved his life, until the arrival of the Samu, forty-four minutes later. “The irrigation of my brain has in fact never stopped”he explains.

Heart surgery and plunged into a coma

What followed, for this practicing Catholic, was like a miracle. Transported to the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital, he was immediately operated on for his heart and plunged into a coma from which he woke up, alone, five days later.

“I couldn’t stand up, I was talking in my head, I had to relearn everythinghe says

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