A Sunnyvale woman is alive and recovering in miraculous fashion after her daughter performed life-saving CPR, a skill her parents didn't even know she had learned.

"Thank God, I wouldn't be here or I'd be brain dead," Lori Dolan said from her bed at El Camino Hospital Thursday afternoon. "It's a miracle."

Dolan, 53, was home Sunday watching the San Francisco 49ers' football game on television with her husband, Larry, when he stepped out momentarily to pull some hamburger patties off the backyard grill.

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