Fanny Jacobson seeking Uber driver that saved her life in the back seat after she had a severe asthma attack on the way home

While catching a lift home, one woman experienced a severe asthma attack which would have killed her if her Uber driver hadn’t performed a life saving procedure.

Fanny Jacobson believes she would have died in the back seat of a car had it not been for her Uber driver who performed CPR on her until emergency services arrived.

On April 9, Ms Jacobson experienced a severe asthma attack which put her in the ICU for 10 days and at risk of permanent brain damage; but Ms Jacobson managed to make an extraordinary recovery.

Now her main desire is to find the quick-thinking Uber driver that saved her life.

Fanny Jacobson suffered a severe asthma attack and was saved by an Uber driver who performed CPR until an ambulance arrived. Picture Dean Martin

Ms Jacobson said she has always suffered from asthma, however on that day she was exposed to an unfortunate environment which resulted in a deadly attack.

“I have always been asthmatic – also unfortunately a smoker – and the weather was getting colder. I was visiting a friend who just had some renovations done and there was lots of dust in the house,” she said.

“It was the perfect storm for my asthma to go off.”

Ms Jacobson had ordered an Uber to take her from her friend’s house in Stepney to her own home in Magill, but halfway through the ride she started gasping for air before fainting.

“I was reaching for my asthma pump because I couldn’t take a breath – I think I told the driver that he should stop the car – but everything happened so quickly,” she said.

The driver called the ambulance and performed CPR until paramedics arrived.

Ms Jacobson said she was taken to the ICU at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and put on a ventilator for ten days.

“I don’t remember much of those 10 days; I had these hallucinatory out-of-body experiences and I could feel the energy of the people, just a massive outpouring of love,” she said.

Fanny Jacobson is seeking the Uber driver to thank them for saving her life. Picture Dean Martin

“Once I had come off the ventilator, I had no muscle tone and I couldn’t stand, plus I had pneumonia, as well as a bowel infection from the antibiotics – so I was wrecked.”

“But despite all that, I’m alive and well, I just want to thank the man who saved my life.”

Ms Jacobson wants to thank the driver and reward him.

“I just feel this huge sense of obligation and thankfulness and humbleness towards the Uber driver because without him I might have been much worse off,” she said.

“He saved my life and saved me from brain damage.”

Fanny Jacobson doesn’t drive herself after she made a reckless decision in 2012 to pick up her mobile phone while behind the wheel; it resulted in a motorcyclist losing a leg.

Jacobson was apologetic and avoided a two-year jail term on condition of a two-year bond, additionally she was also disqualified from driving for 10 years.