Karin Jordal, 69, collapsed Thursday in her living room in Pinon Hills, Calif., and was motionless on a couch when her son Tore checked via the Internet from the Philippines.
"He tried to call her and got no answer," Tore's brother, Ole Jordal, said by phone from the city of Bergen in western Norway. "He had also tried to call the police and ambulances (in California) but couldn't get through."
He said the family was on the verge of tears when they watched on the web camera as ambulance personnel assisted their diabetic mother, who is recovering in Desert Valley Hospital in California.
"I thank that camera and my sons for my life," Karin Jordal told the Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende by phone from her hospital bed. She has lived in the U.S. and Spain on and off for the last 15 years.
Ole Jordal said low blood sugar caused his mother's collapse and she'll be allowed to go home after a few days in hospital. He said the family set up web cameras in their homes because of the high cost of staying in touch by phone when they live so far apart.
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