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Chloe, seven, saves mum's life after collapse

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A mum believes her
seven-year-old daughter saved her life when she found that she had
collapsed at home.

Chloe Swan has been heralded a
"heroine" by neighbours in Abbots Walk, Wye.

Chloe, the oldest of three
siblings, checked her mum was breathing and felt her heart was
beating before running to a neighbour’s house to get help.

According to neighbour Jane Watson,
Chloe was completely calm throughout.

Chloe’s mum, who did not want to
give her name, has a long-term illness, benign intracranial
hypertension, a type of pressure on the brain. She has been ill for
four years and has lost the sight in one eye due to the
illness.

On Thursday she had a lumbar
puncture to relieve pressure in the brain and returned home but
felt unwell.

Chloe was in another room but came
into the lounge and discovered her mother collapsed.

Chloe said: "I said ‘mum’ and I
said ‘mum’ again and checked she was breathing.

"Then I went to Jane’s and told her
that mum’s passed out."

Neighbour Mrs Watson said: "Chloe
was completely calm and said she had checked that her mum was still
breathing. She was far calmer than an adult would have been."

Chloe arrived back home first and
talked to her mum and told her that help was on the way. She also
took on the role of caring for her six-year-old sister and
four-year-old brother.

Other neighbours then arrived.
"Nearly everyone in the village came in," Chloe said, describing
the group that appeared in the lounge.

Chloe did not cry and stayed
completely calm until an ambulance arrived. She went with her mum
to hospital.

"We went in the ambulance and gave
mummy a big cuddle," she said.

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