00:00You take things for granted and sort of you forget what happened in the past and just carry on having your medication and things.
00:08Yeah, until that Monday.
00:09What started as an ordinary drive home soon became a nightmare for Paul Cutler when he needed to resuscitate his wife at the side of a motorway.
00:19When Suzanne, who has battled breast cancer and previous heart failures, went into cardiac arrest in November, he quickly took action.
00:27I pulled over onto the emergency lane, which wasn't very wide, so I had to make a very quick decision to just get off the motorway.
00:36Hazard warning zone within seconds, jumped out, Annabelle was on the phone during 999, went round to the passenger seat, unclipped her seatbelt.
00:43She was completely lifeless.
00:45I grabbed her by her shoulders, just dragged her out of the car, dragged her onto the grass, laid her flat, started performing CPR.
00:52Obviously chaotic, Laurie's car zooming past us.
00:56And then the air ambulance arrived, people started stopping, the ambulances came, they shut the motorway.
01:03You know, it was a major incident.
01:05Fewer than one in ten people survived going into cardiac arrest, making Suzanne's case nothing short of a miracle.
01:13And although it's been a horrible few months for Paul and Suzanne, they're looking ahead and thinking about how they can raise awareness for the importance of people knowing CPR.
01:22It's given us a bit of a journey that we need to go on now.
01:27We want to try and educate people.
01:28We've spoke about it, Suzanne doesn't really know exactly what happened at all, but Annabelle, my daughter, is with me.
01:36You know, when I've looked at all these bad, poor statistics, we would just love to try and just make people think and perhaps have a look at a video online.
01:46Perhaps if you work, say, can I go on a course?
01:48And just put a bit of focus on it.
01:50I think that's probably why so many, they lose so many people because around you.
01:55They dither.
01:56People just don't know what to do or you pause for a minute, but that minute is so important of your five minutes.
02:02With big hopes for campaigns in the future, Paul and Suzanne will just have to keep beating on.
02:09Megan Shaw for CAME TV in Dartford.
02:11We'll see you next time.
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