Positivity: Mum praises life-saving daughter
From Irlam Manchester, Salford, UK:
Oct. 2, 2008
A PROUD mum has told how her five-year-old daughter saved her life after she collapsed.
Lisa Cotton’s daughter Chloe, known as Coco, ran for help after seeing her mother on the floor of the living room in their house in Carr Road, Irlam on Sunday, September 21.
Lisa, 28, suffers from chronic endometriosis, a condition where the cells of the womb become corrupted, and has had the condition since the birth of her son, Leo, two years ago.
The mum-of-two collapsed on the floor when she was getting her children ready to go out, and brave Coco ran next door to her neighbour’s house to ask for help.
The neighbour then called an ambulance and, when the paramedics came, Coco was able to tell them about her mother’s medical history.
Lisa said: “I have suffered with severe abdominal pain since I had my son two years ago.
“Previously it had been undiagnosed and the doctors couldn’t work out what was wrong with me. But Coco knew that I wasn’t well and she knew that it was in my tummy so she was able to tell the doctors.
“I was feeling a bit poorly and I asked Coco to go and get her brother’s shoes, as we were going out. She went to get them but when she came back, I had collapsed on the floor.
“She ran to get help from my neighbour’s and then, when the ambulance arrived, she was able to tell them that mummy was poorly.”
Lisa, whose partner Mark was working in Hong Kong at the time, was then taken to hospital, where she received a positive diagnosis and is now being treated for the condition.
She said: “I want to shout it from the rooftops how brave she has been. She really did save my life.”
It is not the first time the Fiddler’s Lane Primary School pupil has done a good deed.
Coco also saved her brother when Lisa lost control of his pram after collapsing in Huddersfield, where she used to live.
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