What A Smart Kid!
A seven-year-old boy named Finn Huish should have been in school on the morning of Oct. 25.
He was already running late when he saw his Mother starting to behave strangely.
Corrie Huis, Finn’s Mom, began slurring her words. Eventually she fell and lay there unconscious.
Naturally, Finn was scared, but he ran outside to find help. He saw some workers at a neighbor’s house, and then ran to tell them what had happened.
“When they saw me running, they said ‘There’s a kid,’” Finn told reporters. “I’m like ‘My mom might be dead.’”
The workers ten called 911 and Finn ran home. He wanted immediate help, so he picked up his Mothers phone and started texting.
“I have this group of girlfriends and we go on trips together, and he texted that whole group. Then he texted my Bunco group,” Corrie said.
Within a matter of minutes, people showed up to help. Corrie was then rushed to the hospital, where doctors gave her the diagnosis.
They found a cancerous tumor in Corrie’s brain and a few days later, they completed a successful operation to remove the tumor.
Although Finn can be a handful according to Corrie, but she is thrilled that he was late for school that day. She knows that without him, things could have been a lot worse.
“The fact is, that little stinker wouldn’t go to school that day was actually a blessing,” Corrie later said. “It was really, really awesome, but we don’t not go to school so we can get mommy to the hospital.”
With the intervention of her son, Corrie knows that she’s in good hands as she processes her diagnosis. “I am just really proud that he knew what to do because I don’t know if every 7-year-old would know,” she said.
Thanks to the quick actions of another 7-year-old boy, another mother was able to quickly receive necessary surgical intervention. Not only did he help preserve his mother’s physical and mental capacities, he saved her life.
Sherece Holland, a Chicago police officer lives at home with her son, Romeo, and her mother. She was going through her normal morning routine when out of nowhere she knew something was wrong.
“I had his toothbrush and I couldn’t brush his teeth for nothing,” Sherece remembered. “I started to lose balance…I could hear everything, but I just couldn’t speak…I didn’t have any pain, but I knew something was wrong. I didn’t know it was a stroke.”
Sherece’s mother lost her cool, but Romeo knew what to do. He dialed 911 for her, and within minutes Sherece was on her way to the hospital and received a life-saving operation.
Dr. Melvin Wichter, Chair of Neurology at Christ Medical Center says, “This story touches at the core of why getting patients to the hospital who are suspected to be having a stroke can be life-saving, and it’s all predicted on the fact that Romeo perceived something was wrong and acted to save his mom’s life.”