I DIED FOR 22 minutes QUE

Jess was fit and active when she suddenly collapsed

- EVA LEWICKI

Running up to our kicker Jake, I handed him a bottle.‘There you go mate,’ I said. ‘Now don’t stuff up!’

‘Thanks Jess,’ he laughed.

I played women’s rugby with the Frenchville Pioneers and, as our training had been cancelled, I was running water for the men’s footy game. Going back to the bench, I felt off.

‘My heart’s hurting,’ I said to my friend Gilly, 21.

Then my eyes rolled and everything went black.

When I came to, I was in a hospital ward with Mum, Trudy, now 46.

‘Jess, thank God you’re awake,’ she cried.

‘What happened?’ I murmured.