Naomi Rees-Issitt set up an appeal to buy defibrillators after the death of her son Jamie.
A woman who set up a defibrillator appeal in memory of her son says it has given her family something to focus on in their grief.
The "Our Jay" Foundation was set up after 18-year-old Jamie Rees collapsed and later died after having a cardiac arrest on New Year's Day in 2022.Jamie's mother Naomi Rees-Issitt celebrated the installation of the 100th device in Rugby last week. It took more than 17 minutes for an ambulance to reach Jamie, from Wolvey in Warwickshire, on the night he died.Mrs Rees-Issitt said Jamie had died minutes away from a locked defibrillator and she wanted to make sure everyone had easy access to one in future.She received a BBC Make a Difference award in September.
After the installation of the 100th device, she said: "It was always my aim that Jamie would never be forgotten and I don't think he ever will be everybody knows Jamie in this town and I'm just super-proud of him. "It gives us something to focus on, we miss Jamie more every single day and your mind gets swept up by grief, but if we didn't have this to concentrate on I think it would be a million times worse."
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