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Two years after her mother’s passing, Kassie Ranchie is sharing her story and encouraging people to prepare for the worse.

Ranchie, a former Sunshine Coast resident says her mother collapsed from a major stroke and was rushed to the hospital, where doctors couldn’t find her emergency contact information and had to put her on life support.

Ranchie says something as simple as a laminated paper with emergency contact information in her purse would have saved time and Ranchie says maybe she could have even gotten to her mother sooner.

Sharon Vanhouwe
Sharon Vanhouwe
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