A quick-thinking Brooklyn boy was hailed as a hero Tuesday after he calmly phoned 911 when his sickly mother collapsed and started convulsing. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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“She fell down. She’s shaking,” 7-year-old Drew Champagnie told a dispatcher at 8:12 a.m., a source said. “Please send someone quickly.”
With his mother writhing on the floor beside him, Drew coolly rattled off to the 911 operator his address and his father’s cell phone number.
“It’s not just, ‘Help! Help! Help!'” an FDNY source said. “It’s like, ‘Please get someone here.’ He had it together.”
Paramedics arrived at the Cypress Hills home minutes later and quickly went to work on Drew’s ailing mother, Doris Champagnie-Gilkes.
Champagnie-Gilkes, 47, was later listed in stable condition after undergoing a battery of tests at Kings County Hospital.
“Mom is doing well,” an FDNY source said. “She’s expected to be okay.”
In a bedside interview, Champagnie-Gilkes appeared slightly dazed, but her eyes came to life when asked about her son.
“He’s awesome, a beautiful boy,” said Champagnie-Gilkes, who suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes and seizures. “He’s always looking out for me.”
After his act of bravery, Drew went to school as if nothing had happened.
He returned home to a horde of waiting reporters and photographers.
“I’m not scared,” Drew said. “I know what to do.”
Drew said his mother was helping him get dressed for school when she started suffering a seizure.
“She was shaking, and she fell sideways,” Drew said.
“I went downstairs and got the phone and called 911. I told them that my mom is sick and come as fast as you can.”
“When the ambulance came, I let them in,” Drew added.
The precocious boy said his grandmother and uncle, a city paramedic, taught him what to do in case his mom starts having a seizure.
Drew, who lives alone with his mother, said this was the third time he’s phoned 911 after she’s fallen ill.
The boy will be sworn in as a junior emergency medical technician by FDNY officials in a ceremony set for Wednesday.
A source said the boy’s bravery and composure left officials in awe.
“She’s having multiple seizures on the floor. You don’t know where it’s going to go,” an FDNY source said. “The 7-year-old boy did a great job.”
Drew, who wants to become a “famous wrestler” and loves to play on the computer, said his favorite subject is math.
After his eventful day, he said, there was one thing he still couldn’t wait to do: hug his mom.
