Posted on 01/05/2008

Jan 5, 2008–WELLINGTON, NZ–Two young boys are being hailed as heroes for helping bring their mother back from the dead. The six and seven-year-olds rang 111 after their mother had a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), then comforted her until help arrived.

Six-year-old Taine Eade and his seven-year-old brother Cullen were watching TV last Friday night when their mother Kendall had collapsed in SCA. “I rung up Grandad and he told me to ring 111,” says Cullen. Cullen grabbed the phone as Kendall lay unconscious in the hallway. “I just stayed with Mum and I saw her face going a bit purple,” says Taine.

With an ambulance on the way, the pair calmly followed the operator’s instructions.

“The lady that was speaking to me told me to roll her over. But I couldn't so then she told me to tilt Mum's head over a little bit and listen for if she was breathing. Well, she wasn't and then the ambulance people arrived,” says Cullen.

Kendall was clinically dead when help arrived. She had to be shocked five times with a defibrillator before her heart restarted.

Medics say the boys’ quick thinking undoubtedly saved her life. “The boys were so calm. They followed the instructions, or tried to follow the instructions of the call taker to the letter, and really made a great attempt,” says Peter Cain of Wellington Free Ambulance.

“And it really is a wee bit special that they managed to stay so calm when it was their mother that was involved,” Cain says.

Kendall Eade says she thinks her sons are “pretty cool” and amazing. Until she gets better the boys are staying with their grandparents, not fazed at all by the whole experience and just glad their mother is okay.

Source: ONE News

 

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