Graduation is a special moment for every student – but for 59-year-old University of Sunderland graduate Mitch Stevenson it’s nothing short of a miracle.
In March 2017, Mitch was at home in East Lothian, Scotland, when he began experiencing severe chest pains and struggled to breathe. His wife Jackie called for an ambulance, and he was taken to hospital in Edinburgh and immediately put into an induced coma.
Mitch, who had been taking medication for respiratory problems for around a month, was found to have double pneumonia and sepsis in his lungs. Doctors told Jackie if he had arrived at hospital six hours later, he would have died.
