While he was on the phone with his online gaming partner, Aidan Jackson, a 17-year-old British teen, had a seizure‘epilepsy, last January 2. It was her friend who was on the other end of the phone, but also on the other side of the globe, who alerted British police, teaches us the BBC.
The parents had noticed nothing
“I had just put my helmet back on and I heard what I could only describe as a seizure. I immediately worried and asked if it was okay,” said his lifeguard, Dia Lathora, at Liverpool Echo. This American lives in the state of Texas, more than 8,000 kilometers from Liverpool, where the victim lives. Panicked, she immediately started looking for the European emergency number and managed to come across a real person.
In Liverpool, the young Aidan’s parents did not notice anything. Quietly installed in front of their television set, it was only when they saw two police officers running towards their front door that they became worried.
“We were at home watching TV and Aidan was upstairs in his room. The next thing we noticed were two police cars outside with flashing lights. I assumed they were in the area for another reason, but they ran to the front door, “said Caroline Jackson to the BBC.
“They said there was a man who did not answer the address. We said we had not called anyone and they said the call came from America. I immediately went to Aidan and I found him extremely confused, “she continues.
Thanks to her friend’s call, Aidan was able to be taken care of in time. Already suffering from an epilepsy attack last May, he will be followed up for this problem. Her mother called Dia Lathora to thank her.
“She was just happy to have been able to help us. Aidan is doing much better,” she told the BBC.
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