By Victoria Stone-Meadows
Georgia Kruger was just 12 years old when her brother Mitchell, 11, had his first seizure in the car on the way to school from Clyde North.
For her composure and quick thinking, Georgia has been awarded a Triple Zero Hero Award for guiding an ambulance to her location in extremely difficult circumstances.
In bumper-to-bumper traffic, in a car full of her siblings and worried mother, Georgia was able to keep her composure to call an ambulance and save her brother.
“Mum had heard a noise in the back seat, and then I heard the noise and my sister Charlotte was crying; I was the last one to realise what was happening,” Georgia said.
“Mum threw the phone at me, and I was shaking so much it took me a while to hang up from dad, process what was going on and call the ambulance.”
While all this was going on, Georgia’s mum was trying to get attention of others in the traffic to find room to pull over.
Despite being surrounded by absolute chaos, Georgia was able to guide the ambulance to where they had pulled over and maintained her composure to help save her little brother.
It took doctors a second seizure and months of testing for Mitchell to be diagnosed with epilepsy, and when Georgia called the ambulance on that fateful day, she had no idea what was happening.
Georgia was awarded a Triple Zero Hero Award at a ceremony on Tuesday 30 May where her brother Mitchell also discovered something about himself.
“I learned there are lots of people who have seizures and a lot of phone calls were about seizures,” Mitchell said.
“Many people suffer like I do, and I feel like I’m not alone anymore,” he said.
Georgia’s mum Andrea and dad Brett said they could not be more proud of how their daughter had handled the situation.
“We are very proud parents,” Mrs Kruger said.
“If that was me on the phone instead in that situation, I wouldn’t have been able to do what she did; the poor kid didn’t even have a chance to collect herself.”
“I just knew we had to help him, and we had to work together and she did it and it was amazing.”
