On Monday evening, there was a power outage in Karlshamn municipality, an outage that lasted for about twenty minutes.

More than 3,600 households were affected - and for Tima le Grand, life was at stake when the apartment was extinguished.

Her oxygen machine, which she needs after she quickly became ill in 2017 in an unusual lung disease, is powered by electricity.

- I have two oxygen machines that I have to have all the time, says Tima le Grand.

Portable oxygen tube

So when the power went out, she knew that even the oxygen would disappear soon.

- I panicked.

Luckily, my husband was home and could help me with the portable oxygen tubes I have at home.

Had he not been home, it would not have happened.

I can not use the tubes myself.

I thought I was going to die.

The power outage was caused by a technical fault in Eon's network.

Hear Tima le Grand tell more in the clip above.