Profile of Heroism

Quick awkward story, so I was suppose to interview someone else, and out of the blue she just ended our friendship. And when I say out of the blue, I literally woke up Tuesday morning to a text saying blah blah blah “goodbye” I replied with a simply rude “K.” I thought hard about whether I should just do the story on her and just get pasted my emotions, stop thinking about it for a little bit just enough to get the damn profile done then I thought this will just turn into something thrown together and I didn’t like that so being a great journalist I am * wink wink * I last minute interviewed someone else. So don’t get confused from my sketch and think, “these don’t match, what’s going on.”

From the 1990s song by Will Smith we are going to “Switch” up my profile!

Emily was only 12 years old when she had to save her grandfathers life; he had been attacked by bees’ “literally about 50 stings”. Her grandfather was outside mowing and without realizing ran over a bees nest in the ground while moving. Emily and her grandma were inside, Emily was on the phone with her best friend Kayla. The phone beeped and she switched over calls, it was her grandfather. “I easily could have ignored the call. But I’m glad I didn’t.” Emily said, she continued saying “ It was on the home phone so I had no way of knowing who was calling.” Which just shows how lucky she was to actually answer the beep in her ear.

“All I heard was a faint distressed whisper of “Help…Emily…get grandma…” she said thinking back to this scary incident in her life.

Emily beeped back over to Kayla and said “hey I think something is wrong, I’ll call you later. Then hung up.” Kayla said.

“She sounded kind of confused and scared at the same time” Kayla said, referring to when Emily beeped back into her phone call.

Emily screamed for her grandma and they went running outside. Her grandma was a nurse so she made him sit up and tried to stabilize him until the ambulance came “which was really fast” Emily said.

Although Emily doesn’t remember what exact physical conditions her grandpa was in all she could remember is “he was in bad shape.”

While her grandpa was in the hospital the EMT’s told them that “if Emily was even a minute later, he may have lost his life.” said her grandma.

Emily did call Kayla back a few hours later and “She was still freaked out and I’m pretty sure she got emotional when she started explaining it” Kayla said.

During the interview Emily kept saying how “traumatic” and “scared” she was, all she could do was bawl her eyes out when she saw her grandpa and during the whole ordeal.

“My grandpa is so allergic to bees’ that he even temporarily lose eye sight”

Her grandpa is alive and healthy today because of her and even though this happened 6 years ago, Emily still remembers this traumatic event as if it happened yesterday. Some may think this isn’t that big of a deal event in ones life compared to some events in other peoples lives, but to Emily it was pretty scary and she handled it like a champ. And in the process saved a life.



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