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An ‘incredible’ girl has received an award from the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) for her bravery after coming to the rescue of her father when he suffered a seizure. Lily-Alice Foster, 12, of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, discovered her father, Lawrance, 34, unconscious and curled up on the sofa in her grandparents’ house at 4:15pm on the 9th of December of last year.

Despite being the only other person in the house and facing a distressing situation, Lily-Alice kept her cool, put her dad in recovery position and quickly called 999. “I remember she went to the sofa, she had a pillow on her.” the face. and it fell, so I dialed 999 and told them what was happening,” he recalled.

“I really didn’t know what was going on.” Lily’s emergency call was answered by Christopher Turk, who helped her care for Lawrance before the ambulance arrived.

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Turk, who handles between 60 and 70 calls a day, said the call stood out. “I can remember it very vividly,” he said.

“Until she told me that I hadn’t realized how young she was, she was very calm and mature throughout the whole thing. She did it amazingly and that’s why I finally nominated her.”

Lawrance had been recovering from a previous head injury sustained in November 2021, which left him in a coma for a few months and a metal plate was placed inside his head. It was about a month after being released from the hospital that he started having seizures.

“Lily stopped with me that day at my parents’ house and it was after my parents got out that I started to feel the symptoms,” she recalled. “My mouth and throat began to feel hairy, and I was also experiencing pain in these regions of my body, followed by spasms in my arms and legs.

“That was when I went to lie down on the sofa because I knew what was going to happen. I was devastated that Lily was alone with me at the time, as she had never seen me have a seizure before that day, but at the same time I am so proud of her for how she handled the situation.”

Speaking after her daughter received the Laverick award at Ashfield School on Wednesday March 29, mother Nicola Channer said: “People can go a lifetime without having to deal with something like that, so going through it as a child of 12 years is a huge thing

“The fact that she managed to get him into the recovery position and stuff like that blew my mind. I don’t know how I would deal with that situation even at my age now.”

That day, the 34-year-old received a text from Lily asking her what her father’s address was. “I knew immediately that she was having a seizure,” she said. “I got in a car to get there but it took me 40 minutes because of the school traffic and things like that. She’s very mature, she’s got her head on straight, from what we’ve been through in the last year and a half. .”

First to arrive on the scene were ambulance technicians Michael Riviere and Neil Butler, followed by rapid response paramedic Laura Hurst. The Laverick Award, which recognizes children and young adults who have done all they can to help others, is in memory of Nick Laverick, a paramedic team leader who died of cancer on his birthday in September. of 2013.

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