A woman who suffered a severe asthma attack in the back of an Uber while heading home is on the hunt for the quick-thinking driver who saved her life.
Fanny Jacobson, an Adelaide woman, was in the back seat of a car on the way home on April 9 when she experienced a severe asthma attack.
Ms Jacobson was halfway through her Uber journey from her friend’s house in Stepney to her home in Magill when she began gasping for air and passed out.
She believes she would have died if it hadn’t been for her quick Uber driver who performed CPR on her until an ambulance arrived.
Emergency services rushed Ms Jacobson to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit and put on a ventilator for 10 days, putting her at risk of permanent brain damage.
Adelaide woman Fanny Jacobson (pictured) suffered a fatal asthma attack in the back seat of an Uber while returning home from a friend’s house.
Mrs Jacobson, who has made a remarkable full recovery, now wants to find the driver and thank him for saving her life.
He explained that while he has always suffered from asthma, that particular day was the “perfect storm” of factors that made the attack so severe.
‘I have always been asthmatic (unfortunately also a smoker) and the weather was getting colder. “I was visiting a friend who had just had some renovations done and there was a lot of dust in the house,” Mrs Jacobson said. The advertiser.
Mrs. Jacobson took her asthma pump and told the driver he had to stop the car before she passed out.
The next thing he remembers is having an out-of-body experience during his stay in the ICU.
“Once they took me off the ventilator, I had no muscle tone and couldn’t stand up, plus I had pneumonia as well as an intestinal infection from the antibiotics, so I was devastated,” Mrs Jacobson said.
Mrs Jacobson added that she is “alive and well” and just wants to thank and reward the man who saved her life.
“I feel a tremendous sense of obligation, gratitude and humility toward the Uber driver because without him I could have been much worse off,” Ms. Jacobson said.
Ms. Jacobson’s Uber driver stopped the car and performed CPR until paramedics arrived. Now, Mrs. Jacobson wants to find the driver to thank him for saving her life.
Ms. Jacobson does not drive herself and often opts to take an Uber after injuring a motorcyclist in an accident.
In 2012, Ms Jacobson picked up her mobile phone while driving and crashed, causing a motorcyclist to lose a leg.
Ms Jacobson apologized and avoided a two-year jail term on condition of two-year bail. She was also disqualified from driving for 10 years.
