A FOUR-year-old girl from Dousland was this week praised as a heroine after helping emergency services to reach her 79-year-old grandmother following an accident in her home. Ann, who suffers from a heart condition, was alone in her home in Woodlands estate with grand-daughter Zephyr, who has only just turned four. Ann had just finished cleaning the floors when she slipped and badly broke her hip. Zephyr?s father Simon Quoreenton said: ?My mother couldn?t move at all. ?Zephyr managed to get her handbag for my phone number, she relayed the number to Zephyr, who actually made the phone call herself. ?I told her I would phone for an ambulance and I didn?t expect her to do anything else.? But Zephyr, who spent the first three months of her life in Southampton General Hospital and had already endured two bouts of major open heart surgery, did not stop there. She managed to unlock the back door of the house and walk away from the property to the main road, where she waited to flag the ambulance down. ?She seemed to know she shouldn?t go onto the road, but as soon as she saw the ambulance she started waving her arms at them and took them in to my mother, who was in a pretty bad way,? said Simon. ?Mum is a heart patient and takes a lot of drugs, so really it was quite life-threatening. ?The ambulance crew were completely amazed, they?d never encountered anything like it ? she basically saved her Nana?s life because there was no way she could have got to the phone. ?We?ve been absolutely knocked sideways by her ? I know adults who wouldn?t have been able to deal with it in the way she did, and at her age.? Ann said: ?She was absolutely wonderful. If she hadn?t have been there I would have laid on the wet floor for God knows how long. ?At one stage I thought I was going to pass out, I was in agony and I felt absolutely dreadful, but I kept trying to pull myself together, because I knew there was only her there. ?She kept saying, ?I?m sorry Nana? as if it were her fault. I knew she had opened the door but I didn?t know where she was going. ?After about fifteen minutes I heard her saying, ?Nana fall down, she can?t get up?, and the ambulance crew came in and told me how she flagged them down.? Ann said Zephyr, whose heart condition is still classed as critical and faces more operations in future, was ?a little angel? and she was still amazed at how sensible her little granddaughter had been in the crisis. Zephyr is now putting her energies to helping her Nana while she recuperates, including putting on her socks for her!
