Emergency Response to Child's Medical Crisis

I mean it was horrible

She woke up I left

her just to take the trash out and then settled her back to sleep

And took the trash out and came back and she was arched back and not breathing

And I started CPR I called for my husband he came and continued

I called 911 and they were reassuring because they were giving us all of

the steps and we were doing the steps

And then they

when the first responders came the first person I saw was someone I'd grown up with

and gone down

one of my best friends growing up and is a firefighter

and he came running down the driveway and I thought oh good he'll make sure

that she's fine

And so they came in and couldn't get her breathing

and got her in the ambulance and we weren't able to be in

the ambulance with her so we followed ambulance to the hospital and

they couldn't get her breathing and they

when I heard them call for the second EpiPen I knew that she

wasn't going to respond and so

um so they stopped working on her and we were able to sit with her

for a while and say goodbye but then we had to walk

out the door and we weren't there