A young mum says she almost died after her drink was allegedly spiked with ketamine when she was out on a hen party.
Aimee, 22, who recently moved from Newcastle to Northern Ireland, was in Dublin with friends for the hen party on April 13, when she claims that her drink was tampered with leading to her heart stopping twice.
She said that one of the last memories from the night was of going to a table with a drink and "then that's when I just started acting really funny”, reported DublinLive.
She alleges her drink was spiked with Ketamine leading to her heart stopping twice and she also had concussion from seizures she suffered.
Aimee said: “Apparently I just started crying, but I was acting like I wasn't crying and then I was laughing. I was acting really strange and my eyes were flicking a bit and they were like, oh, what's going on here?
"And they were going, Aimee, are you okay? And I was sobbing. But I was like, oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm totally fine… They said my whole body language was different. And my eyes were just blank. I was happy but I was sad.
“One of my friends took me to the toilet and she just thought, oh, maybe she's just a bit drunk. She was trying to talk to me and I just closed my eyes and then I completely collapsed on the floor. And then I sort of stood back up and she said it was like I was fighting what was happening to my body. And I just kept collapsing and then sort of coming back off.”
Aimee says that less than five minutes later, her heart stopped. In the meantime, another friend noticed their absence and when she came to check up on them, she saw Aimee on the ground and her friend screaming: “She’s not breathing, she’s not breathing!”
They checked her pulse and found nothing and they found her eyes unresponsive.
While the friend who had initially taken Aimee to the bathroom started performing CPR, the other friend went downstairs to ask for help screaming: “Her heart stopped, someone please help!”
Aimee continued: “And no one knew what to do. I don't know who, but someone ended up calling an ambulance for me.”
While they waited for the ambulance to arrive they carried her to the restaurant area of the bar where it was more quiet.
“I was just seizing loads. Nobody knows how many times I had seizures. It was at 10 plus. That's how I got the concussion – because my head was smacking off the floor," she said.
The emergency response team had just put a heart monitor on when Aimee crashed again and luckily it was much easier to restart her heart.
Four days later, Aimee discharged herself to be close to her toddler and doctors have reportedly old her they want to give her a 24-hour monitor because they don’t think her heart will fully recover.
Aimee told Dublin Live she has had headaches the whole time, feeling sick and having heart palpitations. She says can’t walk up the stairs without having to stop to catch her breath. She struggles to carry her two-year-old, and she starts feeling “very dizzy” when carrying her down the stairs.
Before the incident, Aimee was perfectly healthy, and she thinks that if she had been someone with heart problems, she would have died instantly.
She was also told by doctors that if she had not had her friend who knew how to perform CPR, she would be dead. Aimee’s heart stopped for the first time at 11pm, her friends told her.
Aimee is now calling for more awareness.
“My heart literally stopped and I nearly didn't come home to my two-year-old daughter. And then it's just like, ‘oh, well just be more careful’... Nobody's realising my little girl nearly didn't have a mum, my friends are actually traumatised," she said.
“It just shocks me so much that no one's learned to help and no one actually knows what to do…”
Aimee still does not know who actually spiked her drink with test results from the hospital showing that there was ketamine in her system.
