Girl Scout Cookies Revive Diabetic Woman

A Girl Scout "cookie mom" said she used the treats to help rescue a woman who appeared to be in diabetic shock over the weekend in Federal Way.

Danette Lam told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News she finished picking up hundreds of boxes of cookies to be sold when she and a friend spotted a car backed up on top of some bushes at the corner of 13th Avenue South and South 315th Street.

"And the reverse lights were still on and the car was still running, and it didn't look right," Lam said.

She jumped out to find that the woman behind the wheel was semi conscious and locked inside her car.

"She just looked at me with this blank stare and then she would just go right back to sleep again," Lam said.

Neighbors dialed 911. Just before paramedics arrived, the ailing woman's husband showed up with keys to unlock the car door.

"And then he looks at me and says, 'Do you have anything with sugar?' And I realized, 'Oh, it's a diabetic,'" Lam said.

Lam had an open box of caramel cookies with her to share with the woman, who was suffering from a low blood sugar level.

"She was able to take a couple bites and then the paramedics actually showed up and were able to give her full treatment, and she was able to walk away. So it was a happy ending to a story."

Lam said she didn't get the woman's name, but that she was happy she was in the right place at the right time with the right cookie.

[Update on Feb. 20, 2009: A South King County Fire representative said the patient couldn't eat the cookies and that she didn't get enough sugar from them to revive her. Paramedics used an IV with glucose to correct her blood sugar levels. She was well enough to go home with her husband.]