'I didn't realise the watch even had the technology to do that and even how it works but it is incredible. It really is unbelievable.'
When Aideen Ahern was gifted an Apple Watch as an early birthday gift from her son Conor, little did she know that just a few weeks later the piece of tech would be instrumental in helping to save her life.
"I have very few recollections from the event, I don't even remember being in the ambulance and taken to hospital, but according to those who were there I was unconscious and I was unresponsive the police had said, but I don't remember that or anyone else even being in the bedroom at that time. The 32-year-old said: "Mum spent that birthday in hospital, I had seen the watch and asked mum if that was something she would like for her birthday and bought it around the end of August and rather than wait until her birthday I gave it to her when I got it, so if I had of waited to her birthday, she might not be in the same place she is now."
The hours and weeks which followed Aideen's collapse were a period of great worry and tough decisions for the family. Conor said: "I had very little hospital experience before this luckily so I didn't really know what was happening, my wife is a physio and worked in ICU during Covid so I've always had an awareness of the things the NHS does but I genuinely had no idea how good they are.
"RABIU is quite a small ward, it's really specialised, I think there are only maybe 35 inpatients, a very small number so as soon as mum went there that was where I saw the biggest upturn in mum's progress," said Conor.
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