Ian Cowie, 38, collapsed at his flat in Aberdeen, too weak to summon help. He was, extremely cold, dehydrated and in excruciating pain, but still alive.
Julie Cowie said she acted on “mother’s intuition” when she went to check on him on Saturday, January 9. She raised the alarm and he was rushed to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI), where he remains in intensive care after a three-hour hour emergency operation.
She was told if she’d been even an hour later he wouldn’t have survived. Ian’s sister Rhian Kemp said: “We have no idea how he managed to stay strong enough to hold on but we are beyond grateful that he did.
Doctors have told us if our mother didn’t find him when she did he would’ve died. "(She) knew something was completely wrong as.
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