Parents are supposed to keep their children safe from harm and rescue them when they’re in danger, but when one dad’s life was in danger, his 3-year-old toddler ended up being the one to save him.
38-year-old dad Mark had Type 1 diabetes, which means his body cannot make insulin and needs to take it four times every day. But Mark follows a set schedule to ensure his blood sugar levels are stable, which is why his wife Emma didn’t even think twice to leave him home alone with their son Lenny-George while she went down the road to her mom’s house.
“It was a Sunday night, I needed to nip to my mum’s, which is literally two minutes around the corner by car, and I left them watching CBeebies together. I’d been out for about 30 minutes, and when I got back they were lying on the sofa. Mark didn’t look well, so I said, ‘what’s going on here?’ Lenny just turned to me and said ‘I saved daddy’, and Mark said it was true, he had.”
While Emma was out, Mark’s blood sugar dipped down to a dangerous 1.1 level, when it should be between four and seven.
“Mark had collapsed and woken up on the kitchen floor after he had a hypo and Lenny was feeding him yogurt that he’d managed to get from the fridge. How he’d got them out of the fridge I have no idea, but his little blue wooden chair was next to it so it looked like he’d dragged it over to stand on it. It could’ve been a completely different scenario if he’d been in bed or Lenny hadn’t done what he did. He could’ve ended up in a diabetic coma.”
The couple had never explained Mark’s condition to their son, which is why their so stunned he knew to feed him something sweet and get him his glucose tablets. “He saved his life,” Emma said. “Lenny is a proper character, really funny. It’s incredible what he’s done, and how he knew to do it. We are so proud! But he does have a mischievous side, a typical little boy running around at 100mph and never listening to his mum which is why it’s so much more amazing what he’s done!”
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[Featured image: Manchester Evening News]
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