A ‘CALM and caring’ toddler has been described as a little Florence Nightingale after coming to her grandmother’s rescue when she collapsed at home.
Gaynor Tomlin was babysitting her two-year-old granddaughter, Maisie, at her Henwick Road house, while her mother went to the shops.
But when the 59-year-old went to pick her up, her recently replaced hip came out of place and she slumped to the bathroom floor in agony.
When she saw how much pain her ‘nanny’ was in, little Maisie went and found clothes to put over her grandma to keep her warm and then returned to find her mobile phone.
However the mobile had no credit and so the young heroine picked up the home phone so an ambulance could be called without any instruction.
She then waited with her until her mother returned and the ambulance came.
When paramedics arrived Maisie continued to care for her grandma by cuddling her and telling her everything would be okay and then even made the response team plastic bacon sandwiches from her toy kitchen.
Maisie’s father, James Richmond, said: “I’m so proud, she was so focused, there was no discussion, just focus on Nanny.
“She is such a loving and caring girl even when she sees an animal hurt on TV she is sad.”
Mrs Tomlin was taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital where she stayed for nearly a week to correct what had gone wrong.
She said: “She was so calm and so caring, if she had gotten upset I don’t know what I would have done I would have been even more worried. I was in a lot of pain but tried not to show it in front of her. She was a little Florence Nightingale.”
Once Mrs Tomlin was home she bought her granddaughter a medal with a certificate to thank her for her help.
