Two-year-old dials 999 to save mum
Updated on 13 July 2009
A two-year-old girl helped save her mother's life when she called 999 after she collapsed with an allergic reaction.
Isabelle Keeling called the emergency services as her mother Joanne suffered the reaction to latex at their home in Bournemouth, Dorset.
Just the day before, Isabelle had watched an episode of the children's TV programme Tweenies where she had seen how to call 999.
Police officer Mrs Keeling felt the reaction come on and her Epi-pen adrenalin jab did not immediately work, so she said to Isabelle "Can you get the phone, mummy is poorly" and then she collapsed.
"I heard Izzi on the phone talking to someone and I was thinking I need that phone and now is not the time to be talking to someone by pressing the redial button," Mrs Keeling, 34, said.
But all the time Isabelle was on the line talking to the operator and she was able to give her name, address and telephone number.
She even opened up the front door to let in neighbours closely followed by paramedics who were able to promptly treat her mother.
"From an early age she has been very, very chatty," Mrs Keeling said. "She picks up everything we say and last year after the US Presidential elections she was going around saying 'US president Obama'.
"So what she did was amazing but that's Isabelle really. I never imagined her wonderful ability to retain information would one day help me."
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