Seven-year-old girl helps save mother´s life after 厳しい 喘息 attack
A seven-year-old girl has been credited with saving her mother’s life when she 苦しむd a 厳しい 喘息 attack.
Katherine Holifield, 37, was 運動ing home on August 12 after a day kayaking with friends when she began to struggle for breath.
She pulled over into a layby on the A449 in Monmouthshire and called 999 for help, but 予定 to 激しい wheezing was unable to speak and give the call handler her 場所.
As Ms Holifield, who 苦しむs from brittle 喘息, 設立する her breathing より悪くするing, her daughter Isla took over the call.
The seven-year-old calmly told the call handler to look out for a red car with a kayak on the roof.
The Welsh 救急車 Service call handler used the 全世界の 演説（する）／住所ing 科学（工学）技術 what3words to pinpoint Ms Holifield’s exact 場所 and organise help.
Ms Holifield, of Cardiff, said: “We’d spent the day kayaking in Monmouth with friends. I felt a bit tight-chested when we got off the water but just put it 負かす／撃墜する to the fact we’d been doing やめる a bit of strenuous activity.
“We’d started to make th e 旅行 home but I wasn’t getting any better, I was getting worse.
“Recognising it was an 喘息 attack, I pulled into a layby and got my nebuliser out to try and help.
“I’ve had brittle 喘息 since I was a month old and have managed it my entire life with inhalers and nebulisers, but this one was 特に bad.
“In the end I couldn’t speak at all and Isla said, ‘Mummy, is this when I need to call 999?’”
Call handler Madison Vickery, who is based at the 信用’s 臨床の 接触する centre in Carmarthenshire, said: “I could tell straight away that Katherine was really struggling to breathe.
“She was 肉体的に unable to 述べる their 場所, so I sent her a text message 含む／封じ込めるing a link to the what3words website so we could try and find them.
“The three words ? configure, 音声部の, plodding ? put them on the A449 just outside Llandenny in Monmouthshire, so we were then able to organise help.”
As Ms Holifield’s 条件 悪化するd, quick-thinking Isla took over the call.
Ms Holifield, a service co-ordinator at Cardiff-based 港／避難所 Home Care, 追加するd: “Isla was so 静める and concise when she was giving （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） to the call handler.
“She was upset but she was just on a 使節団 with it. She did all of this with our Jack Russell, Roly, in the car too.
“There are periods when my 喘息 is very good and periods where it goes 完全に off the rails.
“On 普通の／平均（する）, I have an 喘息 attack every two to three months, and usually have to call for an 救急車 around twice a year when they’re that 厳しい.
“I had Covid-19 last April which just seems to have 悪化させるd the problem.”
Paramedics Harriett Thomas and Will Jones arrived to help Ms Holifield and took her to the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran.
Mr Jones said: “It was （疑いを）晴らす when we got there that Katherine was in 大規模な respiratory 苦しめる.
“For us, it was about trying to stabilise her breathing enough to get her in the 支援する of the 救急車 ? all while traffic was hurtling past us in the next 小道／航路.
“Isla was very 甘い and was 持つ／拘留するing her mum’s 手渡す throughout.”
This week, Ms Holifield, Isla and Roly met call handler Ms Vickery in person to say thank you and were also 再会させるd with the two paramedics.
Isla was 現在のd with a 証明書 of commendation by 信用 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Jason Killens.
