A Scottish mother who received a heart transplant has told how her daughter twice saved her life using the Alexa home assistant service.
Emma Anderson, from Robroyston in Glasgow, was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy just before she turned 16 years old, which makes the heart muscle too thick to function correctly.
The 27-year-old received a life-saving heart transplant last year at the NHS Golden Jubilee hospital in Clydebank.
She told her daughter Darcey from a young age that she had a "sore heart" and taught her what to do if she became ill at home.
Darcey, now aged six, stayed calm and has been able to raise the alarm on two occasions.
Ms Anderson said she set up the Alexa so that "if I passed out or was feeling unwell all she had to do was say, 'Alexa, call help', and that would call my mum who lives around the corner".
"She’s had to call on Alexa a couple of times, she even called an ambulance on her own and that time I was in a really bad way.
"I’m so proud of her, she is a wee superstar."
When first diagnosed, she had an internal defibrillator implanted inside her chest, which "fired" three times last year.
She said the heart transplant had been transformative and she was able to marry her partner Conner in July last year.
Ms Anderson said that since her transplant she has "a totally new life now".
"I can actually walk to school and pick her up and walk back again, something I could never do before," she said.
"Over Easter, I managed to take Darcey swimming and to the play park, the farm park, simple things I wasn't able to do before, I can do now. I’m able to be a mummy now."
She continued: "Getting a transplant is a very hard road, it’s not easy.
"I was on life support and all sorts of other treatments after my operation for a long while, and my muscles deteriorated so much I couldn’t walk any more."
Ms Anderson said that the only thing she cared about once she was better was learning to walk again, so she could walk down that aisle and get married.
"I was literally discharged just over a week before the wedding, I still had stitches in walking down the aisle," she said.
While recovering in hospital, Ms Anderson created a TikTok video with images of different stages of her heart journey using Scottish singer Tom Walker's song, 'The Best Is Yet To Come'.
The singer was so touched by the video he invited her to London to appear in a video featuring people who had inspired him.
