cardiac arrest and being brought back four times, Darren Mathieu is picking up the pieces of his life. To say his multiple brushes with death have changed him would be an understatement.After suffering severe pancreas damage, Mathieu went into cardiac arrest four times and fell into coma three times.
Doctors were convinced he was not going to make it, but he pulled through. He is still recovering and struggling to get his life back on rails.Before everything, Mathieu was living in Prince Albert taking care of his 10-year-old daughter (who wishes not to be named) and dying mother.
He was managing fine until the tragic day his mother died in 2020.“She didn’t let on how sick she was, so when she passed it came as a massive shock.
She was my world and when that stability disappeared, I just went off the rails. I don’t remember what happened between the day my mother died and the day I woke up in the hospital,” Mathieu recounted.Unable to handle the grief of losing his mom, Mathieu started neglecting taking his diabetes medication.