How a northern Alberta woman turned tragedy into life-saving advocacy, earning an Order of Excellence
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Kim Ruether lifted her son's eyelid and saw his still, dilated pupil staring at the ceiling as he lay on a stretcher in a northwestern Alberta hospital hallway a decade ago. She says she didn't need a doctor to tell her the boy was dead.
Kim Ruether lifted her son's eyelid and saw his still, dilated pupil staring at the ceiling as he lay on a stretcher in a northwestern Alberta hospital hallway a decade ago.
She says she didn't need a doctor to tell her the boy was dead.
"I just looked at his little face and I thought, 'How could this big, beautiful 16-year-old boy be in this situation?'" she says.
"Then the doctor came over and he said, 'I'm sorry, but we are not going to be able to save your son' … I remember pinching my stomach so hard, thinking I just need to wake up."
Ruether's son, Brock, stopped breathing and collapsed that day while playing volleyball in his high school's gym. An autopsy found it was due to cardiac arrest.
She later discovered the device that could have saved his life sat unused beside him during what would be his final moments.
Ruether heard the recording of the five-minute call his peers made to 911 and learned an automated external defibrillator, or AED, was hanging steps away, next to the gym's doors.
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