Earlier this year, two little girls named Alexia and Alayna Mougey became overnight heroes for doing something most children should never have to do: They saved their mother's life.
The twin 5-year-old sisters were alone in the house with their mother Kelly, who has epilepsy, when she suffered a seizure. WDTN News reports that the girls had been put to bed, but one of the girls wanted a glass of water. She called out to their mother but received no answer — Kelly had collapsed and was lying lifeless on the floor.
Alexia picked up the phone and immediately dialed 911.
"You can tell her we have help on the way, OK?" says the dispatcher in the recording. "Tell her help's on the way."
The little girl then turns to her mother and can be heard saying, "Mommy, help's on the way, OK?"
WDTN reports that while Alexia spoke the dispatcher, Alayna wrote down all of the names of the people who should be contacted once help arrived.
To hear a 5-year-old having to reassure her motionless mother on the floor is gut-wrenching, but their call to action was exactly the right thing to do.
“They’re so grown up for their age,” Kelly told WDTN of her twin heroes. “They, as 5-year-olds, do so much more — not only just in school but in a sense of anything, so much more then I’ve seen normal 5-year-olds do."
And that includes coming to the rescue for the ones they love.
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