Boy saves gran’s life
Published: July 13, 2007
A SCHOOLBOY was today hailed a hero after helping save his grandmother’s life.
Hartlepool eight-year-old Josh Urwin kept a cool head when he found his grandmother, Linda Cooper, unconscious on the floor.
He rang his great-grandmother, Doreen Phillipson, 80, who in turn rang his mother, Simone Urwin.
Josh then looked after his unconscious gran until an ambulance arrived to take her to the University Hospital of Hartlepool.
Simone, 40, of Colwyn Road, said:”He was so calm, he did everything. He said ’she can’t move she’s on the floor, she can’t talk’. She actually had no blood pressure.”
She continued: “Josh was out playing and he came in because it was time to go to tennis. Me and my mother had only spoken five minutes before on the phone.
“Then Josh rang my nana saying his nana was unconscious on the floor.
“She rang me and I dialled 999 on one phone at work while ringing my mam’s house at the same time. I told him the ambulance was on its way and to just stay there and look after nana.”
Simone said the ambulance service couldn’t get through to Josh due to a call divert being in place and added: “I rang Josh back and told him to check that nana was still breathing and to go and open the door for the ambulance people.
“Josh looked after her and kept his cool until the ambulance came and only broke down shortly after when his grandad Gerry arrived home.
“If this had happened on one of the days that she didn’t pick Josh up, she would have been lying there for over an hour before being found and could
have died.
“We’re all so proud of Josh for reacting so well as he was very frightened by what happened.
”He’s said to me ‘I can’t be doing with losing my nana’. They are really close.
“When we went into the hospital, she started crying. She gave him a big kiss and said ‘Oh my little hero, I love you to bits’.
Linda, a 58-year-old housewife from South Parade, suffered an anaphylactic shock after taking her arthritis medication.
She looks after Josh three days a week until Simone returns from her job as a secretary in Ferryhill.
Linda was kept in hospital overnight before returning home after making a quick recovery. She said: “Every time I see him now I say ‘how’s my little hero today?’
“He was really marvellous. He surprised himself.”
Josh, who attends Eldon Grove Primary School, was treated to a visit to the cinema to see another hero in action – in hit movie Spiderman 3.
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