 Two-year-old Andrew Long with his mother Jenny |
Paramedics on Thursday praised the actions of a two-year-old boy who raised the alarm after his mother had an epileptic seizure. Andrew Long, of Hemingford Grey in Cambridgeshire, pressed an emergency button on a telephone after his mother, Jenny Long, had a seizure in April.
A spokesman for the East Anglian Ambulance Trust said: "When the paramedics arrived he was still chatting to the operator telling them that his 'mummy wasn't very well'.
"But for Andrew's actions she might have slipped into a coma and when that happens it can lead to all sorts of problems."
Mrs Long taught her son how to use a special phone equipped with an emergency button if she became ill.
She said: "When we had the phone fitted I explained what it was to Andrew, pretended to have a fit and told him what to do.
"And he did exactly what I told him to do when it happened for real.
"I'm very proud of him."
The ambulance trust spokesman said: "We think it's very impressive behaviour for a child so young - he remembered exactly what he had been told."
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