A woman's escape from certain death.. and the secret in ordering pizza!

A woman has revealed how ordering pizza actually saved her life after a delivery woman found her unconscious and helped her escape death.

Karen Hebert Sullivan, of Massachusetts, spoke about the incident, explaining that it was a Friday evening when she decided to order pizza for dinner, but, when food delivery service Sophia Furtado arrived, with the pizza, she found Sullivan lying in her garage driveway, bleeding from her head.

Sullivan told CNN that she was waiting for pizza outside when her bad knee buckled, causing her to fall and hit her head on the floor as she turned.


 Sullivan said

When Furtado arrived with food, she found Sullivan unresponsive, and gave her first aid because she was trained as an emergency medical technician.

Furtado noticed that blood froze on Sullivan's head and estimated that she had been lying there for 15-20 minutes.

"Karen Sullivan wasn't responding, her eyes kept rolling to the back of her head," Furtado said. "I felt like I was going to lose her, so I called 911 and stayed with her until the ambulance arrived and took her to the hospital."

After the accident, the woman was hospitalized for three weeks and had two severe brain haemorrhages.

"I couldn't drive, I couldn't write, I could hardly walk," she said.

Despite the traumatic experience, both Sullivan and Furtado became friends after the ordeal.

They also met each other's families and exchanged Easter gifts.

"I'm so grateful to her," Sullivan said. "She's my guardian angel. Thank God she was there. If she wasn't there I would have died."

Furtado also received a $1,000 educational grant from her company for her heroic role.


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