Twins save woman in diabetic shock

 Fox News:

Twin sisters help save woman with medical emergency on flight from Boston to Fort Myers, Florida

Twin sisters revealed to Fox News Digital how they came to the rescue of a woman in trouble aboard a flight
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Nicole Kelly, a traveling nurse as well as a nurse at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., and her sister Lindsay Byrne, a firefighter and paramedic with the Wayland, Massachusetts, Fire Department, were both aboard a JetBlue aircraft on Monday, August 1, when a flight attendant requested help from anyone on board who had a medical background.
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The two sisters did not have seats next to each other.

But Nicole Kelly said she saw her sister, Lindsay, "run up there first. The woman was unresponsive in the bathroom — we got her out but weren't sure [at first] what was going on with her."

Kelly added, "When we had her out, we heard a faint beeping — that’s when we noticed it was a blood sugar monitor. So we knew it was her blood sugar and that it was a diabetic emergency."

The sisters "had to improvise," she said, "when we found out what was going on. We got some sugar packets and put the sugar under her tongue until it helped her regain consciousness."

Kelly noted that when the woman awoke, "she was confused and too weak to sit up in the seat."

So the pair stayed with her, never leaving her side for the rest of the flight. That lasted for "about 45 minutes, until the plane landed," said Kelly.

"The plane actually landed while we were kneeling in the aisle with her, right behind the cockpit," Kelly told Fox News Digital.

Then, "as soon as we landed, a team of medical staff was waiting for her. As far as we know, she was traveling alone."
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There is more.

 The woman was lucky that these two were on the same flight.  Their quick diagnosis was life saving.

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