Wee hero saves her mum's life

Published 25 Aug 2010 09:30 0 Comments

A DIABETIC Tullibody mum has been saved by her three-year-old daughter who phoned for help when she passed out with dangerously low blood sugar levels.

On Saturday morning Hazel Neil lost consciousness at home when her glucose level dropped and there was no-one else other than little Rebecca around.

The pint-sized life saver was upset and worried about the condition of her mum and managed to use Hazel’s mobile to call for help and raise the alarm.

Hazel told the Advertiser, “I hadn’t had anything to eat in the morning and I must have passed out or fallen asleep. When the sugar level is that low your life is in danger.”

Hazel (27) has suffered from diabetes for four years and has gone hypoglycemic before but normally her husband, Alex, has been on hand to help. Unfortunately Alex had gone fishing earlier in the morning so it was up to the ingenious tot, who begins nursery this week, to save the day.

“The phone is quite hard to work,” said Hazel. “Rebecca got the phone and must have slid the button on the side to unlock it, she then got into the phone addresses and phoned my friend Anne-Marie Gormley who is under 'Ginge’, so it’s not as if she called the first on the list.

“When Anne-Marie answered Rebecca was crying and kept saying 'mummy’s hurt’.”

Anne-Marie, who was at Sauchie Gala, sent her boyfriend along with Hazel’s brother-in-law and father-in-law to check on her.

When the three arrived they called for an ambulance and the next thing Hazel remembers is waking up with a paramedic beside her.

She said, “It is incredible she managed to do that. She has never seen me like that before or used the phone.

“The phone is a Nokia 5230 and sometimes I struggle to use it with it’s touch screen and everything else.”

Hazel added, “It is a shock to wake up with paramedics around you but I might not have woken up at all if it wasn’t for Rebecca. I think she deserves a medal.”

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