1 December 2008
Mom is Alive Thanks to Boy Scout Son
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What a terrifying story from Delmarva Media, but with a great ending.
There is a lot Linda doesn’t know about the day her heart suddenly stopped beating. She remembers picking Jake up from school, remembers making the turn on to Route 13 from College Avenue, remembers feeling dizzy. After that, nothing.
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Jake was sitting in the passenger’s seat on the way to the library where Linda works. He was about to pull a book from his backpack when Linda fell forward on to the steering wheel. “My first thought was that she just passed out at the wheel from low blood sugar or something.
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Jake soon realized Linda wasn’t breathing. Now stopped in the middle of traffic, Jake let his Boy Scout skills kick in.
“I was really scared, but I just tried to think of things in steps — not really take on the weight of everything that was happening at once — and just progress through it.”
He tried to open Linda’s airway, but discovered he couldn’t. He found his mother’s cell phone and called 9-1-1.
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Paramedics managed to get Linda to the hospital, but recovery was unlikely.
“They called my sister in Wyoming and told her she would have to make the decision to pull the plug because they didn’t think I was going to come out of it,” said Linda. “Even now the heart doctors don’t know why it happened or if it will ever happen again.”
It was a week before Linda regained consciousness, and she only knows the story through Jake and emergency room workers.
“They tell me I’m a walking miracle,” said Linda. “No one thought I was going to make it.”
She turned 50 this month and said it’s a birthday she’ll cherish, along with the time she has to raise Jake.
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