A teenage girl who saved her father’s life with CPR after his heart stopped beating for 35 minutes after having a heart attack has expressed her immense gratitude as the family look to celebrate Father’s Day more than one year later – and she is now studying to become a paramedic. In the early hours of the morning on October 13 2021, then 15-year-old Lillie-Mae Hulme woke up to the sounds of her stepmother Asta, 52, “screaming” from her bedroom.
Lillie-Mae, now 17, rushed into the room and saw her father Philip, 58, an HGV driver, lifeless on the bed – his eyes were open, his “tongue was out”, and he was “blue” in colour. She began “shouting” his name and “shaking” his body to try to wake him up – but he was not responding.
Lillie-Mae dialled 999 and was advised to give chest compressions, administering CPR until paramedics arrived, when they then used a defibrillator six times to revive him. It was later discovered Philip, who was 56 at the time, had suffered a heart attack before going into cardiac arrest – his heart had stopped beating for 35 minutes, meaning he had technically died.
