A brave, quick-thinking little girl stepped in to help her mum after she passed out with a sepsis infection.
Maisie Beck, seven, came to the rescue when her mum Sophie collapsed at home in Southport, LancsLive reports.
Sophie, who works as a nurse at Ormskirk Hospital, had a temperature of more than 40 degrees and was unable to move or talk clearly.
She told her daughter she was struggling to breath and she stepped up to help.
Maisie grabbed her mum's phone, held it to her face to unlock it and called family members for help, all the while helping to keep two-year-old brother calm throughout the ordeal.
Sophie said: “I started to feel unwell on Sunday, although I’d been unwell for a couple of weeks and it went away.
“On Sunday, I started again with a sore throat and on Monday my temperature was just getting higher and higher.
“I had to ask my step-dad to pick up Maisie from school and at about ten to six I was on the phone to my sister and she said you really don’t look well.”
Struggling to breathe, Sophie lay on the couch and told Maisie she wasn’t well.
A scared but brave Maisie found her mum’s phone and used the face recognition to unlock it before calling her auntie and telling her: “You need to ring an ambulance, I think mummy’s dying.”
She scrolled through her mum’s call list to continue calling family members, telling them: “Someone needs to come round and help, mummy’s not well."
Sophie said: “We’ve got quite a heavy front door and she couldn’t open it when everyone came round.
“I tried to stand up and just collapsed and when I came round Maisie was shouting in my face and she actually dragged me to the front door.”
Sophie was rushed to hospital in an ambulance where she continued to feel confused and dizzy. She couldn’t remember if she had taken the insulin needed for her diabetes, was unable to walk and struggled to talk clearly.
Doctors looked in her mouth and noticed she had tonsillitis but also feared that signs of sepsis were present. This was confirmed in subsequent blood tests.
Sophie was given regular antibiotics through an IV drip which initially struggled to bring down her temperature.
The next day, she was allowed to go home to avoid the risk of catching any infections in hospitals and is now resting at home and feeling grateful for the quick-thinking of her daughter.
“We’ve spoken to her about stuff before and what to do because I’m a nurse and her dad is a police officer but she’s just like ‘yeah, yeah, whatever’ and we didn’t think she was taking in but clearly she was.”
Sophie added: “Thanks to my amazing little girl thinking fast and doing what she did, I’m going to be ok, I can’t put into words how grateful I am for her. She’s amazing.”
Maisie, who goes to Norwood Primary School, was left feeling shaken up after the ordeal and her family are keen to stress how proud they are of her.
Sophie said: “She just said she was really scared and keeps asking if she did enough and if she did the right thing.
“We just keep telling her she did amazing and we’re really proud.
“I think she’s now realising she did the right thing and everyone’s so proud of her.”
