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Jayde Dobe, 15, and her mum Marion Waldie … and a QAS bear which was given to them as a memento of the big day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 17, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

When 15-year-old Jayde saw her mother Marion collapsed on the loungeroom floor, she knew exactly what to do … she calmly rang Triple 0 and asked for the ambulance.<\/p>\n

Jayde’s quick response – plus a new clot-busting drug \u2013 saved Marion Waldie’s life, and also led to the Nanango pair appearing on national TV last week.<\/p>\n

“It started just like a normal day,” Marion recalled. “I got up in the morning and saw my husband John off to work.<\/p>\n

“I then got Jayde up for school and went outside to hang out the washing.<\/p>\n

“I started to feel a bit of pain, I didn’t feel right.”<\/p>\n

As she walked from the bathroom into the \u00a0loungeroom, she started to sweat and feel like she was burning up.<\/p>\n

She grabbed at her chest and collapsed on the floor, but remained conscious.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Jayde was just a few feet away in the kitchen – and she called Triple 0.<\/p>\n

A tape of the call proves just how calm Jayde was, encouraging her mum – who was moaning in the background – to keep breathing through the pain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jayde also got some ice packs out of the fridge to help cool her down.<\/p>\n

“I was not scared really. I just wanted to make sure mum was okay,” Jayde said.<\/p>\n

“Jayde was very calm and she calmed me,” Marion agreed. “She said it’s okay mum, they’re coming, they’re coming.”<\/p>\n

Nanango ambulance station is just minutes away and paramedics were quickly on the scene.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t hear the sirens, I was in too much pain. The pain was awful, in the centre of my chest,” Marion said.<\/p>\n

“I saw Jayde standing there with the ambulance driver. I grabbed the ambulance man and said ‘don’t let me die’ and that was it.”<\/p>\n

For only the second time in the South Burnett – and only the second time in Queensland – the paramedics administered a drug called Metalyse to break up the clot that was causing Marion’s heart attack.<\/p>\n

But she wasn’t out of the woods yet …<\/p>\n

Marion went into cardiac arrest on the loungeroom floor, and the paramedics had to use a defibrillator to restart her heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She was then taken to Nanango Hospital where she was stabilised before being flown to Nambour Hospital.<\/p>\n

“I went into cardiac arrest four times,” Marion said.<\/p>\n

She calls the four ambulance paramedics – Josh, Toby, Danny and Lachlan – her guardian angels.<\/p>\n

Marion had a stent inserted in her heart in hospital the same day and, amazingly, just six days later she was home.<\/p>\n

The health scare has had at least two consequences for Marion … first there was the TV interview last week on Channel 7’s Sunrise show, and more importantly: “I don’t smoke any more!”<\/p>\n

“It was very, very scary,” she said.<\/p>\n