Donations page set up to help Nute hoops player who suffered heart attack during game

Rhys Daigle with his dad in this photo from the Go Fund Me page. (Courtesy photo)

MILTON - A Go Fund Me account has been set up to help the family of a Nute freshman basketball player who suffered a heart attack during a game on Monday in Epping.

Rhys Daigle was playing in the third quarter when he sudden turned ashen and collapsed.

After preliminary treatment to get him breathing failed, Derek Perry, an EMT with Boston-based Cataldo Ambulance service, gave him CPR to get his heart moving.

According to nh1.com, "Perry said he then began performing chest compressions and a second shock was administered, at which point the player began thrashing and working to breathe. Perry said the player's pulse returned in his wrist and neck and he was breathing on his own until EMS arrived."

He was rushed to Exeter hospital where they helped stabilize him so that they could then Medflight him to Boston.

Perry told nh1.com that contacts at the hospital told him that the young man was playing Playstation and doing well Tuesday morning.

To donate to the fund click here.