Rapper Jelal Edmunds (Lazy J) with Dr Michael Byrom at Sydney town hall for St Vincent life ball. Picture: Turner Grant Source: The Daily Telegraph
X-Factor rapper Jelal Edmunds (Lazy J) who was stabbed in the heart. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: The Daily Telegraph
WITH no pulse and no heartbeat, rapper Jelal Edmonds had to be brought back from the dead.
It was only by chance that heart surgeon Dr Michael Byrom had been on hand to treat the former X-Factor contestant and rising hip-hop star, known as Lazy J.
The 19-year-old was rushed to St Vincent's Hospital a fortnight ago after being stabbed in the heart and severing an artery during an attack outside a club in Darlinghurst.
Dr Byrom was at the hospital with a team of transplant doctors after they were called to receive donor organs.
But when Dr Byrom examined the patient he had trouble finding his heart.
"When I opened his chest, I had to look twice because it was still," Dr Byrom said yesterday. "I looked at the heart, then I looked at the lungs, and I thought 'Well, this has to be it'."
With Jelal's heart in his hands, Dr Byrom quickly discovered the reason his blood pressure had dropped and he had no pulse. What he did next brought Jelal back to life.
"He had a hole in his heart, so I had to put my finger in that until his circulation restarted," he said.
Incredibly, just a fortnight after saving Jelal's life, the pair was reunited on stage at the hospital's inaugural and aptly named Life Ball on Saturday night.
Jelal's parents Mani and Rana, who hugged and thanked the doctor, cried as their son's miraculous survival story was shared with the 400-strong crowd at the Sydney Town Hall.
"It was the most magical experience. To see my son and the doctor together, I'll never forget that moment," Ms Edmonds said.
Dr Byrom said Jelal's survival was a combination of everything aligning - from his incident happening so close to the hospital, the work of paramedics and the doctors being there at the right time.
"If any one of these things hadn't happened, he would have died, absolutely," Dr Byrom said.
Hospital spokesman David Faktor said the patient and doctor reunion was incredibly compelling for everyone at the ball.
"Jelal's outlook served as a major inspiration for all those present - both supporters and staff alike," he said.
Jelal and his best friend Panapa Iafeta, who perform as Lazy J and Big Guy, had just finished a gig at Club Eleven on Oxford St, when they were approached by two men, and an altercation broke out which lead to Jelal being stabbed. Two men have been charged over the incident.
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