Boy saves mother after seizure drama

He's only seven, but James Turner knew just what to do when his mother Kirsten collapsed at home.

He called 999 and then followed the instructions given to him on the phone to save her life.

Kirsten collapsed in front of him when she suffered status epilepticus, a life-threatening seizure.

She said: "I was face down on the floor, he put me in the recovery position until the ambulance turned up. They talked to him on the phone and told him to turn me on my side."

The mother-of-two, from Little Haywood, spent 12 days in Stafford Hospital after collapsing on December 3.

She said it was her son's quick thinking which ensured the family spent Christmas and the New Year together.

She said: "He has been left traumatised by the whole thing. He doesn't like being on his own any more."

James rode with his mother in the ambulance and was worried she had died. He had to watch on helplessly as paramedics did all they could to help his mother, who had stopped breathing.

Kirsten, aged 42, said: "I didn't feel very well, I was just walking down the corridor, my blood pressure must have dropped and I had a seizure.

"I fell in to where James was sitting. He rang 999 straight away.

"He told me: 'They were sticking pins in you, mummy'.

"He said from when he put the phone down it was a matter of minutes till the ambulance got here."

It was not until her second week in hospital that Kirsten could begin to piece together what happened.

Her husband, heating engineer Ian, aged 50, was shopping with the couple's other son, 12-year-old Jake, when the drama unfolded.

A family friend called him on his mobile and he rushed to hospital to be reunited with James and his wife.

For more than a decade, Mrs Turner has seen doctors across the country trying to get an accurate diagnosis for her condition.

At first doctors were unsure whether Mrs Turner had an epileptic disorder.

The family now hope that her story will give comfort to other youngsters who have parents who suffer with life threatening conditions.