A seven-year-old Irish girl is being hailed as a hero by gardai after she saved her mum’s life as she suffered a stroke in her home.
Young Erin O'Mahony found her mum unresponsive and managed to get the keys, open the front door and ran next door to get help from a neighbour.
Erin’s mum, Dee Dixon, spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning and recounted her daughter’s heroic response to finding her collapsed in her bed.
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“So basically, I woke up very early on the Sunday morning, around 7:30 am or 8:00 am and the only way I can describe it is like is waking up with a feeling like, have you ever stood up too quick and get really really dizzy?
“It was that kind of feeling but I couldn’t move, I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t open my eyes, I couldn’t move my body, nothing. And I must have fallen half out of the bed,” the 40-year-old explained.
“Erin came down, she saw me. I could hear her crying, I could hear her panicking but I couldn’t do anything.
“Then, very quickly she went and got the keys and unlocked the door and went next door and got my neighbour.”
After young Erin had gotten the attention of the neighbour Dee explained that: “My mam and dad came and everything so it was a crazy morning. I remember bits of it, so I was in and out of consciousness. But when I was conscious I couldn’t really communicate so it was a little bit scary.”
When asked how her daughter was doing since the scary incident, her mum went on to say: “She’s good now, but at the time it was obviously traumatising and at the time it was the height of Covid as well.
“So when I went into hospital I wasn’t allowed to have any visitors, so nobody was allowed to come in or anything like that.”
She also thanked Connolly Hospital’s social workers and nurses who Dee says “really fought our case to get visitors in to see us.”
Erin has since been winning awards locally for her brave response to her mum’s illness and Dee highlights that: “We all want to shelter our kids and not really share with them the horrors that can happen in life but at the same time if they’re prepared it’s not as scary for them.”
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