<p>Doctors were preparing cancer patient Lydie Paillard, 60, for a chemotherapy session when she passed out, the director of the Bordeaux Rive Droite private hospital Yves Noel told AFP today.<br /><br />A doctor managed to resuscitate her and put her on a ventilator but then, having consulted other doctors, called Paillard's sons to break the news that their mother was "very certainly clinically dead".<br /><br />But her sons would not turn off the respirator and she was then transferred to the university hospital of the southwestern French city where a scan revealed that she was in fact not brain dead, Noel said.<br /><br />"It's a kind of miracle," he said of Paillard, who woke up after 14 hours. He said that the doctor who resuscitated her had committed a communication error not a medical one as "he saved her life."<br /><br />"All I remember is that I felt unwell after receiving an injection to prevent me vomiting," Paillard told AFP by telephone from hospital where she said she felt "more tired than usual" after her ordeal.<br /><br />"My sons, whom I saw yesterday, explained to me that the hospital wanted to turn off the life support system because it was over and as they refused, I was taken to the university hospital."I haven't really realised what's happened but I think my three sons are the most shocked."</p>
<p>Doctors were preparing cancer patient Lydie Paillard, 60, for a chemotherapy session when she passed out, the director of the Bordeaux Rive Droite private hospital Yves Noel told AFP today.<br /><br />A doctor managed to resuscitate her and put her on a ventilator but then, having consulted other doctors, called Paillard's sons to break the news that their mother was "very certainly clinically dead".<br /><br />But her sons would not turn off the respirator and she was then transferred to the university hospital of the southwestern French city where a scan revealed that she was in fact not brain dead, Noel said.<br /><br />"It's a kind of miracle," he said of Paillard, who woke up after 14 hours. He said that the doctor who resuscitated her had committed a communication error not a medical one as "he saved her life."<br /><br />"All I remember is that I felt unwell after receiving an injection to prevent me vomiting," Paillard told AFP by telephone from hospital where she said she felt "more tired than usual" after her ordeal.<br /><br />"My sons, whom I saw yesterday, explained to me that the hospital wanted to turn off the life support system because it was over and as they refused, I was taken to the university hospital."I haven't really realised what's happened but I think my three sons are the most shocked."</p>