A cat owner is all praises for her little feline and has claimed that her pet saved her life.?
According to cat owner Sam Felstead, her cat saved her life by pounding on her chest to wake her up while she was having a heart attack. The 42-year-old owner from Stapleford, Nottingham, was asleep when she was woken up by her seven-year-old cat Billy at 4.30 am.
After waking up, she realised that she was not able to move her body and had shooting pain down her right side, so she called her mother Karen Felstead for help. She was then quickly rushed to the Nottingham City Hospital in the early hours of the morning where doctors told her she had a heart attack in her sleep.
Now Sam thinks that her cat saved her life. She said: "I was a bit shocked; I went to bed and I felt fine. I'd even been out with the dogs, and I didn't feel ill or have any pains whatsoever. Suddenly I woke up in the early hours covered in sweat and couldn't move. Billy was on my chest and was meowing loudly in my ear hole."
"He doesn't do that normally, he sleeps all day and all night, that's his life. He wouldn't leave me."
A receptionist at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, Ms Felstead said that Billy is not a very social cat and that he likes to keep to himself most of the time.?She added: "He's never woken me up in the night before, he never bothers you. He doesn't wake you for food. Mum was quite shocked. I told her he woke me up and she was even more shocked. You don't hear about that with cats.?
"I'm just glad he woke me up. Who knows if I would have got up without them, it could've been worse for me."
When Ms Felstead's mother called the hospital, they said that the ambulance would be there in two hours. So they drove to the hospital. At the hospital, it was suggested that one of the arteries was blocked which had caused the heart attack.?
She then spent three days in the hospital before she was reunited with her beloved Billy. Ms Felstead said: 'When I came home at first, he wasn't bothered, he completely ignored me. 'He's just the same now, I just try to give him a bit more love. 'I'm grateful towards him as I didn't know if I'd have woken up - my alarm wasn't for another two hours so who knows if I would have woken up.'
Guess we should get a cat too.
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