On Wednesday 10th February this year my seven year old son Harrison Lovett was taking part in his after school football club as usual. Harry had always been an active healthy child with no health concerns at all.

About 40 minutes into the session my son collapsed to the ground and was found to be unconscious. We now know that harry was suffering from arrhythmia caused by Hypertophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy.

Fortunatley our schools bursar Christine Kidman quickly found Harrison to be not breathing and started CPR on our son, at the same time she had the common sense to also direct other children inside to perform tasks (fetch a blanket, get other help) whilst she continued the CPR for our son.

Christine performed CPR for what was an estimated 15 minutes on Harrison, the paramedics arrived and were able to restart Harrys heart into a regular rhythm with a defibrillator and transport him to the Royal Alexandra Hospital. Christine followed and arrived at the hospital being able to give vital details to the team treating Harrison and let our family know what had happened. The cardiac consultant on the team said that Harrys' blood acid levels were "very low" which was an excellent sign.

Harry was later transported and treated in the Evelina Hospital in London where he remained unconscious (safe state by the ICU team) for another 48 hours. During this time we were reassured again and again by the cardiac consultants at the hospital that the CPR work that Christine had carried out had indeed saved Harrison' life and that Harry was in the best state for a child who had collapsed outside they had ever seen. One consultant even remarked that in terms of his blood acid levels they were what they would expect to see if a patient had had an attack on the ward itself.

Harry was woken up on the evening of Friday 5th February and was kept on ward and monitored until his diagnosis and then an operation to fit an ICD last Thursday. He is expected to make a full recovery and live a pretty much regular life. 

We have so much respect and praise for all the people who treated our son, from the ambulance crews, doctors nurses and police who got us where we needed to be, but none of their amazing work would have been possible without the initial just incredible efforts by Christine Kidman who, by performing CPR to an incredible standard, not only saved our sons life, but ensured that he would make a full recovery