EASTERTON: A 63-year-old woman who was expected to die after her heart stopped for 45 minutes, is recovering well. Carol Brothers, from Easterton near Devizes, collapsed outside her home from a heart attack, last month.
Paramedics managed to restart her heart and she was airlifted to hospital but her family were told to expect the worst and doctors withdrew medication. Her daughter, Maxine Dickinson, said doctors “put mum on the pathway to die” but days later “she came back to life.”
Brothers was returning home from a shopping trip with her daughter when she collapsed, said her husband David. “I saw them pull up, the next thing I hear is the daughter screaming at the top of her voice and I couldn’t see Carol,” he said. “So I shot out there and she was flat out on the floor, just changing color — a horrible color and basically I panicked.” The doctor said she could go quite quickly — and they put mum on the pathway to die.”
Brothers’ daughter, with the help of a neighbor, began to administer CPR but she said as far as she was concerned “my Mum was dead on the path.” “I just went into complete shock,” she said.
Easterton woman recovers after ‘dying for 45 minutes’
