Gateshead woman reunited with ambulance crews who saved her life

A 26-year-old woman from Gateshead has been reunited with the ambulance crews who saved her life after she suffered a cardiac arrest at home. Dawn Foster was at home in Wrekenton with her partner Carl Walmsley and her dad Keith in April 2015 when she began to feel unwell. Moments later she began having a seizure followed by a cardiac arrest. “Carl rang for an ambulance and while he was on the phone to the call handler I went grey and had a cardiac arrest in my dad’s arms,” she said. With instructions ...