A diabetic mum’s worst fears were realised when she became ill and collapsed.
But amazingly help was at hand from her ‘incredible’ six-year-old daughter who remembered what she had been told to do.
Little Ella Tomlinson became worried when mum Becky, who has been a diabetic since she was a teenager, became ill in the late hours of Tuesday, September 16, at their home on Christleton Drive, Ellesmere Port.
Although Becky had never previously had an attack, she had drilled into Ella exactly what to do if one struck although she never imagined it would happen.
Ella found her mum, a student social worker, unconscious on the bathroom floor after hearing her being sick.
Although she was upset and it was midnight, she used the mobile phone as she had been told to do and called nana, Carol Murphy, who lives just a few hundred yards away in Seymour Drive.
“She told me she couldn’t wake mummy up and she was poorly on the floor,” said Carol.
“I rushed round in the car and Ella let me in.
“I then went straight upstairs.”
Meanwhile Ella was dialling 999 for the ambulance service.
Carol added: “She told them she could not wake mummy up and asked for help as she needed mummy to wake up.
“She even gave them the address and postcode and locked the dog in the kitchen in case it was upset by the ambulance men.”
Ella stayed on the phone as a rapid response unit from the ambulance service and an emergency ambulance arrived on the scene. Staff quickly brought Becky round.
She was taken to the Countess to be stabilised and returned home 24 hours later. In the meantime, Ella went home with her nana.
A relieved Carol said Ella had been ‘incredible’.
She said: “We never thought for one minute she would have to do it. She actually dialled 9999 but it worked.
“We are so immensely proud of her, it is simply enormous what she did.”
Mum Becky said: “I always feared something like that might happen and I said to her if this happens this is what you do.”
She revealed Ella, a Year 2 pupil of Rossmore Primary, was not looking for praise and had said: “Mummy you help me all the time.”
Nonetheless there have been plenty of hugs and a shopping spree with toys and other treats.
Becky and her mum are even more proud of Ella as she spent four days in Alder Hey after a terrible attack by a dog.
Although she has forgotten about being bitten, she has a fear of ambulances.
Ella is to be recognised at a visit to school by the ambulance service later this month.
