Woman credits Apple Watch with saving her life following carbon monoxide leak

"I started feeling anemic and dizzy and my imaginativeness was going blurry," said Natalie Nasatka.

SMYRNA, Del. -- A Delaware pistillate suffering from c monoxide poisoning says her Apple Watch helped prevention her life.

Natalie Nasatka said she was preparing for her time connected the greeting of December 29 erstwhile she began to endure from symptoms of c monoxide poisoning.

"I started feeling anemic and dizzy and my imaginativeness was going blurry," she said. "I was excessively anemic to effort to find my phone, truthful I utilized my Apple Watch and held down the broadside button."

That SOS diagnostic connected the ticker connected Nasatka straight to 911 portion her telephone simultaneously sent messages to her exigency contacts with her location. By this time, Nasatka said she couldn't move. The adjacent happening she remembers is waking up with exigency responders carrying her down her stairs.

"Firefighters got maine to my structure chairs wherever I was capable to beryllium down, but I couldn't clasp my caput up. I was crying, saying 'I privation to live,'" she said.

Nasatka was rushed to a adjacent exigency room, wherever she was treated for c monoxide poisoning. She spent astir 24 hours successful the ER.

Rescuers couldn't find her feline who was hiding upstairs, truthful they closed her chamber doorway and opened a model for caller air.

"Definitely waves of emotions, knowing however adjacent I could person been to dying," said Nasatka. "Of course, my archetypal buss connected New Years was my cat. Picked her up ... I've been saying this since I got location that, immoderate our intent present is connected Earth is not done yet."

She believes the leak came from her heater, and a c monoxide detector is thing Nasatka said she did not have.

She is present encouraging radical to marque definite they person each the indispensable sensors and detectors successful their homes.

"I didn't odor anything, I didn't perceive anything, didn't sensation thing different," said Nasatka.

Nasatka said her flat attraction squad has since repaired her blistery h2o heater. She besides had a caller c monoxide detector installed.