A mum was found "slumped in her car" after enjoying a meal at an Indian restaurant.
In 2020 Liz Bambroffe was coming home from a meal with her husband Lee when she started to complain of pains in her chest. The pains worsened when the couple stopped to pick up their children from family in Formby.
While Lee had gone inside to collect their daughter and pick up heartburn tablets for Liz, she had a cardiac arrest. Her sister Catherine said she came outside to find Liz "slumped" in her car.
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Speaking to the ECHO 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 found Liz had collapsed in her car on the driveway and after looking through the passenger side window saw her sister's "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. Now training to be a nurse, Catherine will be running CPR training with Right at Home for up to 200 students and teachers across Southport and KGV colleges.
The training will also be showcasing a new app designed by the British Heart Foundation, that teaches CPR in less than 15 minutes and the training will be administered with the help of Formby company, Smart Rethink. Catherine said she was inspired to take up the challenge after helping to save her sister's life.
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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