A bodybuilder from Perth passed away in a hospital after collapsing in a gym shower and going unnoticed for fifteen hours.
On August 20, Giuliano Pirone, 33, was at the gym in Perth preparing for a bodybuilding competition. He started feeling sick and went to the shower cubicle.
When he did not return home from work, his family filed a missing person’s report.
Eventually, police found Later that evening, Mr. Pirone fell under the cold running water in the shower cubicle.
Mr. Pirone was given CPR by the officers, and he soon gained consciousness before being taken to the hospital.
He remained in an induced coma in the intensive care unit at Joondalup Hospital, in Perth’s north, for several weeks, but family on Thursday confirmed he had died.
Daniela Pirone, the mother of Mr. Pirone, had previously expressed her worries about 24-hour fitness centres and the fact that her son went missing for fifteen hours before being located when police called his phone.
She spoke on ABC Radio Perth about her sentiments of grief.
Ms. Pirone said to the program on Thursday, “I will never look at the sun, the moon, and the sky the same way again; the light that shone bright has left me.”
Rosa Ostapenko, the sister of Mr. Pirone, referred to her younger brother in a GoFundMe as “the light as soon as he walked through any door.”
She posted on the fundraiser, saying, “He would give you the shirt off his back.”
Ms. Ostapenko said that her brother was anticipating his first bodybuilding competition with excitement because be held two weeks from the day he was found — as well as setting up his own business.
She wrote, “Unfortunately, his brain was devoid of oxygen during that period.”
He would have had a better chance of surviving and leading a full life if he had been discovered sooner.
“Unfortunately, my lovely brother lost the fight.”
The family was “broken,” she said, adding that Mr. Pirone was their “light, rock, world, our heart, and now our Angel.”
Ms. Ostapenko commented, “Little brother, you are very loved.”
