Super son Kyle saved my life after collapse

Sarah Gwynne took a turn for the worse after collapsing in the kitchen of the home that she shares with her two young children in Brierley Hill.

She hit her head as she fell while fetching a drink for her daughter Sophie, aged four.

But young Kyle, who is a keen Manchester United fan, stayed cool, calm and collected to call his grandmother for help. He looked after his sister until she arrived and called in paramedics.

"I believe that he has saved her life," said his grandmother Teresa Spittle.

"He has been marvellous. Especially to look after his sister as well.

"We don't know what would have happened without him."

Sarah had arrived back home, in Pritchard Street, after collecting her children from Hawbush Primary School on Tuesday afternoon.

But minutes after they got home Sarah said she began to feel disorientated and unsteady on her feet. Suddenly, while standing in the kitchen she fell, making a loud bang as she struck her head.

Minutes after she had blacked out, Sarah staggered to her feet but only managed a few steps into the lounge before she suffered her second blackout on the sofa.

"I don't know how long I was out for but all I can remember is just getting to my feet but feeling disorientated," she said.

"I stood and thought, 'How did I get here?' I managed to walk back to the sofa and collapse on to it." She began to cry, only to black out again. The 25-year-old suffers from Vasovagal syncope, which causes fainting following a drop in blood pressure that may be caused by a heart condition. Kyle, aged eight, said: "I thought she was playing at first but she had never lay down when she was playing before. So I decided to phone my nan."

He called his grandmother Teresa, aged 42, on the landline and told her his mother had fainted. She said she stood in disbelief after being told the news. "I couldn't believe what he was saying," she said. "He was the one staying calm when my first reaction was to panic."

Teresa dashed from her home around the corner in Moor Street to help. She had come home from her main job as a respite carer for Dudley Council, and had it been minutes later, she would have left home to go to her second job as a cleaning supervisor at Eaton Automotive Fluids, in Thorns Road, Quarry Bank.

She arrived at the house to find Sarah lying on the sofa with the children gathered around her. After calling 999 a paramedic arrived but was unable to rouse Sarah. She was taken by ambulance to Dudley's Russells Hall Hospital where doctors have ordered further tests.

Sarah was released from hospital later that evening. Teachers at Kyle's school held a special assembly this week and hope to teach some of his classmates what they should do in an emergency.

The family are now planning to buy Kyle a new mobile phone and store it full of emergency numbers in case Sarah collapses again. His mother said: "He is a little hero and I'm really proud of him and his sister for staying calm and getting help like that."