And then there was a woman, holding a dripping wet photograph of a man in a cap and gown, asking, “Is this your son?”

Found floating in the water near her car, it was a picture of Pedrone’s husband — in high school.

“I thought I was having a dream,” Pedrone told The Washington Post on Tuesday night. “I had no idea of anything. I still didn’t understand it was my car in the water. I didn’t realize what was happening until I was in the back of the ambulance. That’s when they started asking, have you had seizures before?”

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In a dramatic rescue captured on video Sunday in Boca Raton, Fla., bystanders managed to save Pedrone from drowning in the canal as she sat unconscious at the wheel of her quickly sinking car. The 34-year-old with a history of seizures had one while driving home from a work meeting that morning, causing her to veer off the road into the 10-foot-deep waterway just after 11 a.m. But that’s not a story Pedrone can tell. Her last memory before waking up on the bank was that she wanted to stop at a nearby Publix to buy a sandwich, and then suddenly everything went dark, and the seizure took over.

Her memory cuts off where Shawn Turner’s picks up.

He was driving along Military Trail when his 9-year-old son, Timmy, yelled from the back seat, “Dad, there’s a car floating!”

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Turner, 33, pulled off onto the shoulder near the water, where a group of people were already gathered, and he could see that there was a woman inside behind the wheel. So he rushed out of the car, took off his pants and dived in.

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He swam up to the window and peeked inside to find an unconscious woman — Pedrone — still buckled in as the car filled with water.

“She’s out cold!” Turner yelled.

He stuck his hand through the cracked window to roll it all the way down. He stretched his body halfway across the front seat, straining to unbuckle her. And just then, another man, later identified as Adam Gunn, swam around to the driver’s side to help.

By then, the headlights were submerged. Turner climbed inside.

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“I was in go mode,” Turner said. “I didn’t know what was going to happen, or how fast it would happen. I just reacted. … Somebody had to act.”

He knew he didn’t have much time. Turner lifted Pedrone out of her seat so that Gunn could pull her out of the driver’s side window. The back end of the car was suspended in midair, as the car started sinking faster.

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“Dad!” yelled his 14-year-old son, who took a one-minute video of the scene. “Dad, jump out! Get out!”

Just as the car’s entire front end went under, and as the water rushed in through the open windows, Turner emerged, popping his head above the surface.

Then, he and Gunn carried Pedrone to shore.

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He said she opened her eyes as they were holding her, appearing disoriented. “I told her to relax, that she was in an accident and that her car went into the water,” Turner said. But Pedrone told The Post that she didn’t comprehend anything until she was at the hospital.

It’s always that way with seizures, she said. She started having them 13 years ago, but said doctors never identified the underlying cause. She has had seven total, and started taking medication after the last one knocked her out two years ago.

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But even with insurance, the meds cost her $500 a month, and Pedrone said she simply couldn’t afford to take them after a while. When she couldn’t get help from her neurologist finding cheaper medicine, she decided to wean herself off — and then came the accident.

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She said she had never had a seizure like this one in her life.

“Usually I’ll have a warning before I have a seizure,” Pedrone said. “Usually I have enough sense to talk myself through it and go, ‘Okay, it’s coming, try and lie down, try and let somebody know.’ But there was no warning. It was just lights out, like somebody just shut the switch off.”

Her memory of what happened picks back up while sitting in the grass along the canal.

She said the most disconcerting part of it all was the photograph of her husband in high school pulled from the canal, leading her to believe that what she was seeing couldn’t possibly be real.

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Her in-laws had recently given her the photographs of her husband in his younger years, and the woman who found the picture floating thought it might be important to her.

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But Pedrone was momentarily suspicious of the stranger, who had asked if her husband was her son. “I’m sitting there and I’m like … why does she have a picture of my husband?”

EMTs took the picture into the ambulance and set it up in her hospital room. It’s now a running joke between the couple.

Pedrone said she was lucky that her only injuries were a few bruises and a black eye, possibly from hitting the steering wheel. The doctors gave her a new seizure medication — one that is affordable, she said.

The car, she said, is totaled.

On Tuesday, she said she met Turner for the first time, or at least the first time she can remember. She credited him and Gunn with saving her life.

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“It was nice to meet him and thank him, because I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for him,” she said. “He and Adam are the ones that jumped in and saved me, and they deserve all the praise in the world as far as I’m concerned.”