By Frank Thorne
Daily Record
Copyright 2007 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail Ltd.
NEW SOUTH WALES, Aus. — Teenager Danielle Hogno yesterday thanked the workmate who brought her back from the dead.
Danielle, 18, was clinically dead for 20 minutes after suffering a heart attack at work at a supermarket.
But first-aider Graham Meyer refused to give up on her and carried on giving her the kiss of life until paramedics arrived.
Doctors in Australia who treated Danielle say Graham’s actions mean she’ll be among the two per cent of people who have a heart attack out of hospital who fully recover.
Cardiologist Jim Leitch said: “She’s very lucky and this demonstrates the importance of bystanders doing CPR.”
Danielle’s dad Barry, from Armidale, New South Wales, said: “It’s nothing short of a miracle. She was down for 20 minutes.”
Graham said: “She was gone. She’d gone blue in the face and her eyes were black pools.
“I knew I was making progress because I saw the colour in her face changing.
“I didn’t hear the ambulances arrive. All I felt was a tap on the shoulder and I think the bloke said, ‘The cavalry are here’.”
Graham was left with bruising around his mouth and took seven minutes to get his breath back.
He revealed yesterday his own life had been saved by a first-aider when he nearly drowned at the age of 18.
Graham added: “I was offered counselling but Danielle’s recovery is my medicine.”