“Without the AED, you would have died,” is what Doctor’s at the Gold Coast Unive…

“Without the AED, you would have died,” is what Doctor’s at the Gold Coast University Hospital have told patient Natalie Fullagar after her cardiac arrest last Saturday.

Natalie, 44, mother of young twins, was celebrating her best friend’s birthday on a boat when they pulled into Wavebreak Island for some time on the sand. She felt what she described as a stitch-like pain in her chest, and this is the last thing she remembers. What happened between then and when she woke up in the hospital…