A mum was found with 'blue lips' and her eyes 'gone' after collapsing in her car after a meal out. Liz Bambroffe had enjoyed a meal at an Indian restaurant with her husband Lee, before heading to pick up her children from her sister, Catherine.
When she began to complain of chest pain, Liz thought she had heartburn. As Lee went inside to pick up the children, he asked Catherine for some heartburn tablets, the Liverpool Echo reports.
But Liz's pain had worsened and she suffered a cardiac arrest. As Catherine came outside, she saw her sister slumped in the car.
Catherine said: "Lee called me and asked for tablets because he thought Liz had heartburn. I just thought the Indian was repeating on her. She stayed in the car and did not come into the house.
"I decided to give her a call and she would not pick up. So I went outside to see if she was okay."
Catherine, from Formby in Merseyside, looked through the passenger side window to see her sister had collapsed in her car on the driveway. She found her 'lips were blue' and her 'eyes had gone'.
She said: "Her heart had stopped, she was a healthy 37-year-old, it was a shock. I ran back into the house and shouted for someone to call an ambulance. Then I dragged her out of the car and onto the drive."
Catherine, 42, performed CPR on her sister for 12 minutes but despite her efforts, Liz was unresponsive. An ambulance arrived and after using a defibrillator a pulse was eventually found and Liz was placed in a coma for two days.
The mum-of-three said: "Luckily she came out the other side with no conditions except a cracked head and a few broken ribs which was because I dragged her out of the car. It was a great outcome but it was hard to go through.
"I'm CPR trained but I never thought I would have to perform it on my sister and it was not all down to me, her husband Lee was amazing through the whole incident."
Catherine received CPR training through a home care business called Right at Home Sefton, owned by her fiancé Jonathan. Since the incident in 2020, Catherine has been training to be a nurse, and the ordeal has inspired her to run CPR training sessions for students and teachers in Southport.
She said: "We just hope that this can encourage others to set up these events. Because one day it could save someone's life, just like it saved my sister.
"They will all be trained and get certificates. So if we can just help one other person save a life then that is job done."
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