A few months ago, a Westborough Medical Assistant graduate saved a man’s life who was going into cardiac arrest at a local Dunkin Donuts. Well, last month another medical assisting student, named Sadie Ladoux, made a heroic move and saved another life in the local community.
As Sadie was on her way to a doctor’s appointment on a cold December afternoon in South Grafton Massachusetts, she witnessed a two car crash on Leland Hills Road.
“Something told me to stop, like it was an instinct” Sadie recalls the first moments of the incident.
As she pulls over and exits her car, she immediately spots an elderly woman in her late 70’s bleeding profusely from the head. “I rushed over as soon as I could, I saw the bleeding, so I quickly took an old T-shirt out of my car and put pressure on her head wound, I then slowly took her over to my car to sit with her and I continued to apply pressure to her injury; I turned the heat on so she could stay as comfortable as possible, I noticed she had severe arthritis in her hands and she was losing a lot of blood.” Sadie waited in her car with the women for over 20 minutes until the EMT’s arrived at the scene.
“The EMT’s were very thankful and impressed when they knew I was assisting to her injury, they told me she lost a lot of blood because she was on anti-coagulant medication and if the blood from her wound went into her eyes, she would have become permanently blind; she was in major danger”. With emotion in her voice she said “All I could do is think about my grandmother at that moment…I couldn’t imagine” The EMT’s took the elderly women in an ambulance to a nearby hospital “The women asked if I could meet her at the hospital…she told me she didn’t want to be alone…of course I followed her there…I was by her side until her family arrived.”
The next day Sadie received a phone call from the women’s daughter “the daughter was very thankful for helping her mom and called me a good samaritan, she was very sweet to call to let me know that” The police later told Sadie that the cause of the car crash was due to a young woman in her 20’s texting and driving, which really hit home for Sadie because a month prior she was a victim of a texting and driving incident that totaled her car and left her very shaken up. “I’m just so happy to hear that the women is now home recovering comfortably with her family”
Sadie has always been interested in the medical field “Growing up my grandfather wanted us to get involved somehow; it was his dying wish for me to go into the field”. “I visited the Porter and Chester campus in Westborough and after talking to Laura and touring the campus I knew right away Medical Assisting was perfect for me”
“After suffering from Crohn’s Disease all my life, I’ve been determined to be successful no matter what, I knew it’s something my grandfather would be proud of, I’ve been in remission twice and the doctors are hopeful about my outcome”
“She’s a fighter…She’s a tough cookie …I’m actually amazed by her” Valarie Maze says about her heroic Medical Assisting student. “Despite her health problems, being very ill and going through daily treatments every day for her Cancer before she comes to class, Sadie has been determined through her treatment to finish and complete the program, I’m so proud of her for so many reasons; she is a true inspiration”.
Valerie Maze is the same instructor who also trained Porter and Chester’s previous life saving student Sarah back in September. When asked how it felt to have two students from the same class save someone’s life Valerie responded “I feel really really proud! That’s my evening class! It just feels so great! It’s wonderful when I can pass these experiences on to my other students; to let them know that their skills are more important than what they do in the doctor’s office or inside the hospital walls.”
Sadie has one more term in her evening class then she is off for her externship.
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