FORT MYERS, Fla.  — Twin sisters saved a Florida woman’s life when she was having a medical emergency on a flight from Boston to Fort Myers earlier this month.
Although the woman, Pat Dougan, mentioned a lot of what occurred is a blur, she is grateful to be alive.
Dougan mentioned she hasn’t met the 2 sisters but however actually desires to thank them for leaping into motion as quickly as they did.
“When they landed the plane, they landed with me in the aisle,” recalled Dougan. “I was in the center aisle. I remember them saying to me, ‘You’re going to land flying on the center floor of the plane.'”
Dougan instructed Scripps Station Fox 4 that 45 minutes previous to touchdown, she handed out close to the airplane’s toilet. She was rushed to Gulf Coast Medical Center after touchdown.
“I discovered later, when I heard on the news, ‘two women save the life of a diabetic emergency on a flight from Boston to Florida,’ and that was me,” Dougan mentioned. “I thought, ‘Oh, that’s me they’re talking about.'”
Dougan then discovered extra in regards to the two girls: Nicole Kelly is a touring nurse, and her sister, Lindsay Byrne, is a firefighter and paramedic.
Dougan, 77, has had diabetes for the final 50 years and mentioned that when she was getting on the flight, she did not notice her blood sugar was low.
“I saw my hands go up and the insulin pump had disconnected,” she mentioned. “The tubing had disconnected from my waist and I don’t know whether that was when I was falling or later on. I think that’s when the ladies realized I had diabetes because they saw the insulin pump.”
Her sons had been anxious when she did not name after touchdown.
“My youngest son called the airport and they didn’t know anything about it,” she mentioned. “I wasn’t home when I was supposed to be, but they finally found me. They were very relieved that I was being treated and taken care of.”
Dougan is again house in Naples now, doing significantly better, and would not plan on taking any flights quickly.
