Ellie Morton shouldn’t have been at her Mum and Dad’s house in Worksop that Friday night last August, she should have finished her shift as an end-of-life nurse and gone home to prepare for her hen doo the following day.
But she wanted to watch the football with her Dad, their beloved Sheffield Wednesday were on the television. It turned out to be a decision that saved her Dad’s life. For just minutes into the start of the second half, Dennis suffered a cardiac arrest and slumped in his chair. “Mum screamed ‘Dennis’ and I turned around and straightaway knew what it was,” begins Ellie, 27. “I jumped out of my chair, shouted ‘Mum, ring an ambulance it’s cardiac arrest’.
They have all suffered cardiac arrests while playing football and are part of the Re-Starting 11, a team of inspirational football people who have lived to tell the tale because they were lucky enough to have someone trained in CPR perform it on them to save their lives.
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