Tulsa Woman Saves Husband's Life With Flawless Use of CPR

Chris Howell NewsOn6.com

TULSA---Today Dianne Guthrie came by Tulsa Fire Station 26 to say thanks. Just last week her husband had just come in from planting flowers…

‘That's when he just collapsed on me, I thought he was just playing but he fell over and I was just looking at him… and I jumped up,' said Dianne.

Mr. Guthrie was having a massive heart attack, and although it had been 5 years since she had taken a CPR class, she knew exactly what to do.

‘I gave him a big hit, and it started, and I thought I need to go call 911,' she said.

EMTs were just finishing another call and rushed to the scene, but they were minutes away. Minutes that seemed like hours as Dianne kept administering the life-saving compressions to her husband, she credits her CPR training.

‘It just came to me, I think I had that little angel in my ear telling me, you need to do this, you need to do this, you need to do this,' said Guthrie.

To her husband and to EMT Jerry Williams, Dianne is the angel.

‘If people don't start CPR, if those compressions aren't being done before we arrive, especially when we may be delayed like in this situation there's no chance of survival,' said Williams.

Especially without brain damage, and while Mr. Guthrie is still in the hospital, he is up and walking, saved by his loving wife who now has something she can always hold over his head.

‘I told him the other night, I said I'm the boss now, you're going to do what I say!'

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