A New Jersey designer has detailed how her Apple AirPods managed to save her life after she sustained a serious head injury while alone in her studio.
60-year Susan Putman who works as a floral designer often listens to music through her AirPods while working, and who could have thought that her love for music would actually help save her life one day?
“I was working on a four-foot horseshoe wreath, and I stepped back to look at it and I forgot its box was sitting on the floor,” she told People (via Apple Insider). “I must have been very conscious about not smashing the wreath because I tripped and flew maybe 8 ft. in the air and my head landed against these metal poles.”
Putman says she wasn’t sure if she lost consciousness after the freak accident, but upon coming back to her senses she remembered she had her AirPods in and simply said, “Hey Siri, call 911.”
The wearables worked as expected and Putman was immediately connected with a 911 operator who stayed on the line until police and paramedics arrived.
“The only thing I remember is the two police guys getting there and one is holding a towel to my head, and he says to the other one to tell the ambulance to get there right now because I was losing a lot of blood,” she says. “Honestly, if it had been another 15 minutes, I’m not sure I’d be here. There’s no doubt about it — if I didn’t have my AirPods in, I would’ve died.”
At the hospital, Putman received seven staples across the side of her head and even got diagnosed with a concussion, because of which she couldn’t look at screens of any kind for a month. Since then, she has made a full recovery and is back in her studio to work on floral arrangements, again with her AirPods in and music playing.
Putman thereafter has been sharing her tale with friends and family and found that most were unaware that the AirPods could be used in such a way. “I’ve had so many friends buy AirPods as a result of this and learn how to use Siri,” she says.
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