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Child is recognized for saving mother’s life
Calls, Job | Sarah | November 23, 2009 at 9:31 am
In a related post this week, please read “My Daddy is hurting my mommy,“ in which PowerPhone CEO, Chris Salafia comments on the importance of dispatcher communication with children.
A little girl got a big hug from her mom and Charles County, Maryland, officials at a ceremony honoring her for a 911 call she made that probably saved her mother’s life.
Samantha Mason was only 4-years-old in August when she found her mom unconscious at their home in Waldorf, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother had told her how to make an emergency call in case the child’s grandmother ever had trouble.
“I always taught her (to call) 911 for my mom, a dialysis patient,” Samantha’s mother, Sharon Mason, told CNN. “I never expected it would be for me.”
Mason said on the day of the incident, she was feeling ill and hadn’t taken her diabetes medicine “because it wasn’t agreeing” with her.
When she went to lie down, Mason said, she apparently slipped out of consciousness because her blood sugar was out of control.
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