Oliver and Arianna being honored for saving their mother Donna Liddle. (Scottish Ambulance Service via SWNS) Young siblings have been honored after saving their mother's life when she suffered a cardiac arrest. Donna Liddle was getting her children, Oliver, 11, and Arianna, 9, ready for school when she suddenly collapsed on the bathroom floor.
Quick thinking Oliver put his mother in the recovery position, while Arianna phoned emergency services before rushing to the neighbor's house for help. Within six minutes, paramedics had arrived, and Donna, was given three defibrillation shocks to restart her heart before being taken to hospital. "I was at home alone with my two children – my husband was in London with work," said Donna, from Aberdeen, Scotland.
"We were about to leave for school. I was brushing my teeth, and my daughter came to look for me - finding me on the floor unresponsive. "She screamed for her brother to come and help.
Arianna called 999 whilst Oliver tried to put me into the recovery position. “Oliver also spoke to the call handler whilst my daughter ran across the road to get our neighbors. "She felt immediate help was needed as I had turned blue and not breathing.
My neighbors started giving me CPR before the emergency services arrived." Donna spent 15 nights in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, and is now recovering well. Oliver and Arianna recently visited Aberdeen Ambulance Station, to meet some of the staff who attended the incident, including Monica Hurley, .