Positivity: Trip to the salon saves woman’s life
From Hickory Grove, South Carolina:
Updated 08/04/07 - 1:02 AM
If Trudy Sellers hadn’t gotten her hair done on July 7, she might have died.
That Saturday, she had a heart attack. Without warning, she went unconscious in a salon chair at Affordable Cuts and Styles on Wylie Avenue. She was saved by friends and a rescue worker using a new community-funded automated external defibrillator.
On Thursday, she got to say thank you.
“Y’all saved my life,” she said while at the salon. “If it hadn’t been for y’all, I wouldn’t be here.”
Sellers doesn’t remember anything about the heart attack, not even driving to the salon. She lives with her daughter and son-in-law, but that day, her daughter was away and her son-in-law was asleep. Had she been home, she believes it would have been too late before anyone found her.
But that didn’t happen. Two women in the salon started cardiopulmonary resuscitation while others got help.
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