Somebody’s hero 4-year-old boy saves his mom
Published: February 1, 2007
Heroes come in all sizes.
Just ask Heather Beadles, who may have had her life saved by her son, Hunter, who is just short of his fourth birthday.
“Heroes come in all sizes,” Beadles said. “They’re not just big, buff men in tight suits. They can be little boys with training pants.”
Standing just a little over 3 feet tall, Hunter Beadles is on the shy side, but Hunter forgot about his shyness and remembered what his mother has taught him about calling 911 for emergencies.
Heather, 23, suffers from severe asthma and didn’t have an inhaler when anxiety and housework caught up with the young mother of three last Thursday morning.
Before Heather could make it to the couch to rest, she collapsed in the kitchen where she had been mopping the floor.
Because she has asthma, Heather began teaching Hunter, her oldest, about calling 911 if mommy “doesn’t wake up.”
Going over and over the numbers and some dry runs, including a false alarm, before the family moved to Hurricane from Lodi, Calif., Hunter certainly learned what his mother taught him.
“It was kind of like a dream. I could hear Hunter crying, ‘Mommy, wake up.’ But I couldn’t get up,” Heather said.
Hunter’s call was placed at 10:20 a.m. and several units responded.
Heather’s next recollection was feeling a wet washcloth on her face and Hunter sitting next to her holding her hand, although she still couldn’t open her eyes and was unable to comprehend what was going on.
Paramedics arrived and Heather’s husband, Les, was called at work at Interstate Rock.
Les said his boss pulled him off a job and told him everything was OK, but his wife had passed out.
“I just broke down crying,” Les said.
Heather said it was a scary day and she thought she was going to die.
“I kept having flashbacks of my life and I said I was sorry to God,” Heather said.
Heather learned while on her way to the hospital that it was her son who called the ambulance.
Even though she had gone over the numbers with Hunter many times, Heather said she felt that God sent her an angel that day.
In addition to her little angel hero, Heather wanted to thank others, including the ambulance crew, who not only waived fees for medical services, but also got an inhaler free of charge, which hopefully will prevent her son from calling 911 again.
All Hunter really remembers of the day is calling 911 and telling the dispatcher his “mother was sicky.”
Hunter still doesn’t quite grasp what he did for his mother, although he did get a visit to the fire station for his quick thinking and both mom and dad are proud of their little hero.
“He’s my hero. He saved my life,” Heather said. “I don’t know how to repay him. Thank you is not enough. I guess I’ll have to buy him a Ferrari.”
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