A body builder is in an induced coma after he collapsed in the shower of a 24-hour gym and was left undetected for 15 hours. Guiliano Pirone was training for a body-building competition when he became unconscious in the shower of a Perth gym on August 20. He had gone to the gym before work and was not discovered until later that night when police barged in and found him on the floor of a cold running shower.
Talking to ABC Perth, Mr Pirone’s mother Daniella said her son was now in an induced coma in the intensive care unit at Joondalup Hospital in Perth’s north. Ms Pirone said her son had stopped at the gym on his way to work, and when he didn’t return home or return calls later that day she started to panic. The family tried to contact Mr Pirone’s friends, ex-wife and people he talked to everyday, but no one had heard from him.
“It was very unusual, completely out of character,” Ms Pirone said. His mother reported him missing to the police, they were able to ping his phone and tracked him down at the gym. “The police had to barge in, they found him in the shower (with the cold water running) he was slanted on the floor collapsed,” she said.
“They thought he was dead.” Ms Pirone said police officers performed CPR and her son quickly became conscious, before an ambulance rushed him to hospital. “The officer who was handling everything, came and picked me and my husband up and took us straight to the hospital, and that’s where I’ve been ever since,” .