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SAN JOSE — The storm clouds parted for a brief window as nature gave the go-ahead for Mike Dosik to finally finish the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot, nearly seven weeks after all the other runners.

On Thanksgiving morning, with the finish line in sight, Dosik suffered a heart attack that medical professionals say he had a small chance of surviving. But that glimmer was enough, thanks to an impromptu team of police, nurses, and first-responders who revived him.

Last week, the 49-year-old San Jose resident returned to the exact spot on Santa Clara Street where he was stricken and walked the last half mile to the finish line. Alongside him was his wife and some of the people who had worked furiously to save his life: two nurses, a nursing student, two police officers, a search-and-rescuer, and a race official.

Dosik, a software engineer by trade, knows his way around statistics, particularly the one that estimates that only about 10 percent of the medical crises like the one he experienced end happily.

“I try not to dwell on it, but the chances of it being as successful as it was were very small, but I’m eternally grateful to these people,” he said.

The scramble to save a life

Things appeared to be going well for Dosik on race day. He remembers the morning air being nippy as he jogged on The Alameda heading toward the SAP Center. Feeling good, the seasoned race runner decided to sprint to the end. His body had other ideas.

“I started getting a little dizzy and I collapsed. I felt like I was going into this very comfortable deep sleep,” Dosik said.

Within moments, from different vantage points, four angels landed next to Dosik. Officer Justin Jantz, a 10-year SJPD veteran working traffic control for the race, saw the crowd surrounding Dosik’s fallen body and broadcast a distress call. Zenebu Tegegne, a nurse in the intensive-care unit at Valley Medical Center in San Jose, was running the race herself when she encountered the situation.

“I knew he was in trouble,” Tegegne said. “I took a pulse, I didn’t feel it.”

Then Andrea Heiser, an emergency-room nurse at Regional Medical Center of San Jose, and Annie Ho, a nursing student at San Jose State, also happened upon the scene.

Together, they formed a tag team to administer compressions and rescue breaths. Around them, a circle of runners and spectators kept a close watch.

Some in the crowd even expressed relief and thought things were OK when Dosik began exhaling. But Tegegne knew better and recognized them as so-called agonal breaths, which are reflexive, not a sign of recovery. They had to keep working.

In the midst of it, Dosik remembers coming to for a brief moment.

“I woke up, my eyes shot open and I saw a bunch of people standing above me,” Dosik said, adding that he then “melted” back into unconsciousness.

Then a team from the volunteer-based San Jose Search and Rescue, working the race, made their way over with an automated external defibrillator. Tegegne applied the pads to Dosik, and in seconds he was given a shock of current.

“He took a deep breath, and he was back,” Jantz said. “It was like you see in the movies.”

“You need to get to the hospital”

About a mile away, Carolan Dosik and her 10-year-old daughter Emma were walking the race when her cellphone rang. As she heard the voice on the other end, her confusion gave way to horror.

“They said, ‘Your husband has had a stroke or heart attack and you need to get to the hospital,’ ” Carolan Dosik recalled. But she quickly realized she couldn’t drive: Mike had the car keys.

Then she spotted an SJPD patrol car nearby. In yet another instance of serendipity, the officer in the car was Sgt. Chris Dominguez, Jantz’s supervisor, who could tell her what had happened to Mike Dosik.

“We got there just in time to see Mike before he went in to have the stents put in his heart,” Carolyn Dosik said.

Reunion, and finishing the race

The entire ordeal on the asphalt in front of Crema Coffee lasted no more than seven to 10 minutes.

Mike Dosik was loaded into an ambulance; it was clear he would be OK. The nurses remembered exchanging high-fives and brief good-byes. After all, they still had a race to finish. Officer Jantz went back to his post.

But Dominguez, the police sergeant, made sure the group’s newfound bond lasted. He had collected everyone’s contact information — except for a retired paramedic who left before anyone could get his name — because he ultimately had to make sure the incident was documented.

And so on Jan. 11, Team Dosik reassembled at Crema, to help Mike traverse the half-mile to Arena Green, where the finish line stood on race day.

They were all moved by the experience.

“In our job, we see the other end a lot,” Jantz said. “To see him alive, awake, walking, talking, with no ill effects … It’s really incredible.”

Heiser added: “It’s connected us … we didn’t know each other and just happened to be there at the right time.”

As they approached Arena Green, they were met by Chris Weiler, the Turkey Trot’s race manager with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation. Weiler stood there bearing the race medal that Mike Dosik had been just a few minutes from claiming, and draped it over his neck. Then he paid tribute to the entire group.

“What they did, that’s community,” Weiler said. “They turned this into an amazing day.”

In the weeks since his collapse, Mike Dosik has avoided wondering what could have been. Clearly, reality turned out to be the better alternative.

“When I step back and pretend it’s not me, it’s this great story, that’s the best part about it, these people who don’t know each other have this great bond and shared experience,” Dosik said. “I think that’s fantastic.”