‘Superhero’ girl saves gran’s life
QUICK-THINKING CHELSEA DIALLED AMBULANCE AFTER NANNA MICHELLE HAD ANGINA ATTACK
A SEVEN-year-old girl has been hailed a ‘superhero without a cape’ after her quick thinking saved her grandma’s life.
Chelsea Scrivens was with her nanna, 49-year-old Michelle Seaborn, at her home in Middleton when Michelle started struggling to breathe.
As her condition worsened, brave Chelsea, who lives in Heywood with her dad Stephen and mum Marie, unlocked her nanna’s phone and called for an ambulance.
Michelle – who suffers from angina, diabetes and ovarian cancer – said: “I have broken my right wrist and I had lifted something with my left hand. When I put it down I felt a twinge.
“The pain was getting worse and worse and I was getting short of breath, so I asked Chelsea to get my medication and spray it under my tongue, which she did, but it didn’t help. I couldn’t breathe and I was crying.
“Chelsea unlocked my phone and dialled 999. I didn’t even realise she knew the code, but it is her birthday. She is a really clever girl.”
The youngster remained on the line with the ambulance service, answering all their questions about Michelle’s condition, and went to the door to guide the paramedics in.
“She told them ‘my nanna can’t breathe,’” Michelle said. “When they asked her ‘what colour is your nanna’ she said ‘at the moment she is brown because she has been on the sunbed, but normally she is white!’
“They asked her ‘what position is your nanna in’ and she said ‘the same position as the ladies on One Born Every Minute – but she’s not having a baby.’”
Michelle says that if Chelsea had not been with her, she doesn’t think she’d be alive today.
“She was only there because she was off school as she wasn’t very well herself,” she said. “She saved my life that day, I couldn’t even open my eyes. I really thought I was dying.
“I am incredibly proud of her. For a seven-year-old to do all that is amazing, and she didn’t get upset or cry once, she was so calm.
“She’s more than a granddaughter to me, she is my guardian angel.”
Now Chelsea has been honoured with a bravery award by her school, St Luke’s CE Primary School in Heywood, and presented with a special trophy.
Headteacher Kim Farrall said: “What Chelsea did is fantastic. She managed to remain calm in a very difficult situation and knew exactly what to do with her nanna’s medication and to ring 999 straight away.
“We are all really proud of her in school.”
Michelle added: “It was really lovely – they said she was a superhero who doesn’t wear a cape.”