Rose Davies waited all night as her family, Leisha Davies, lay on the floor of their house in Pontllanfriath near Blackwood, Caerphilly state, suffering from toxic impact.
Poppy then went to school and said to her teachers, “Mummy is on the floor and I can’t wake her up.”
Leisha, who is still recovering from her existence- menacing condition, said Poppy was her “little hero”.
Family imageLeisha, 35, a mental health employee, claimed she had been feeling ill for weeks after having an activity for a distorted gastrointestinal in October 2023.
She woke up on January 18th, 2018, feeling really worn out, and after collapsed on the bedside with her hubby Ryan working.
“Poppy put on all the lights in the house and opened all the curtains and drapes to try to bring notice,” said Leisha.
“But when nothing came, she spent the night with me”.
The next day Poppy, still wearing the princess costume she’d been playing in before her mummy collapsed, set off to get help, walking to her class, Pontllanfraith Primary, behind her home.
She donned her queen and her wellies, and she left the house; she entered the school doors and received two of her professors who came to aid her.
They called 999, as well as getting Rose dressed in her uniform and returning her to class so she was healthy.
Family imageLeisha, who was induced coma patient and fighting for her life, would be without consciousness for the next few days.
“I woke up in ITU and I couldn’t remember anything”, she said.
“The drugs they gave me had caused my hands and feet to turn dark-colored. I couldn’t move any of my body and I couldn’t speak because I had a tracheostomy.”
Seeing Poppy once was personal.
“I hadn’t seen her for about a month”, said Leisha.
I just sobbed and was trying to say, “I just can’t believe how big she has got.” I thought I had gotten too much.
Poppy was the warrior; the midwives gave her a little cape.
Family imageLeisha spent nine weeks in the hospital, and she is still receiving care.
Although doctors originally told her to possess her feet amputated from the shin along, only quarter of each foot is then required after turning diseased.
Leisha hopes that her story will inspire people to talk to their kids about what to do in an incident and increase awareness of the signs of fever.
“It is scary”, she said.
“I often wonder what would have happened if she had no idea what to do and the expected happened.” She doesn’t understand the gravity but she realizes when I say you are my little hero, you saved mummy’s life, and she loves that”.