A snoring mum's life was saved by the quick actions of her teenage daughter who had learned to perform CPR at school. In a remarkable series of coincidences, Clare Doyle was actually suffering a cardiac arrest when daughter Melissa, who had fallen asleep in her bed, performed the lifesaving technique.
Clare, 43, who works at a dental surgery, praised her daughter, who was just 14 when she put her skills into action – inspiring the mum to become a community responder offering support to emergency services. And Clare, of Lisburn, Northern Ireland, also mum to Maddie, 15, is calling for more people to be taught CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), saying: “If Melissa hadn’t known what to do the morning I went into cardiac arrest, I would have died.
“I had worked late the night before and we were supposed to be flying to Liverpool the next day, so she was just in my room chatting away and ended up going to sleep in my bed. It was such a fluke but it ended up being lifesaving, because if she hadn’t spotted what was happening when she did, I probably wouldn’t be here now.”
