A woman who suffered a severe asthma attack in the back of an Uber on her way home is on the hunt for the quick-thinking driver who saved her life.
Fanny Jacobson, an Adelaide woman, was in the backseat of a car on her way home on April 9 when she had 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 started gasping for air and passed out.
She believes she would have died if her quick-thinking Uber driver had not performed CPR until an ambulance arrived.
Emergency services rushed Ms Jacobson to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where she was admitted to intensive care and placed on a ventilator for 10 days – putting her at risk of permanent brain damage.
Fanny Jacobson (pictured), an Adelaide woman (pictured), suffered a fatal asthma attack in the backseat of an Uber while on her way home from a friend’s house
Mrs Jacobson, who has made an extraordinary full recovery, now wants to find the driver and thank him for saving her life.
She explained that she had always suffered from asthma, but that day was the “perfect storm” of factors that made the attack so severe.
‘I have always been asthmatic – unfortunately also a smoker – and it was getting colder. “I was visiting a friend who had just had a renovation done and there was a lot of dust in the house,” Ms. Jacobson said. The advertiser.
Mrs. Jacobson grabbed her asthma pump and told the driver to stop the car before she passed out.
The next thing she remembers is having an out-of-body experience during her stay in the ICU.
“Once I came off the ventilator I had no muscle tone and couldn’t stand, plus I had pneumonia and a gut infection from the antibiotics – so I was devastated,” Ms Jacobson said.
Ms Jacobson added that she is ‘alive and well’ and just wants to thank and reward the man who saved her life.
“I just feel a tremendous sense of obligation and gratitude and humility toward the Uber driver because without him I might 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 and often chooses to take an Uber, after injuring a motorcyclist in an accident.
In 2012, Ms Jacobson grabbed her mobile phone while driving and crashed, causing a motorcyclist to lose his leg.
Ms Jacobson apologized and avoided a two-year prison sentence on a two-year bond. She was also banned from driving for ten years.