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TOM BERRY/Ledger & Times
Hardin resident Bennie “Gene” Beasley says he has his 5-year-old granddaughter Savannah Porter to thank for being alive today. Porter found Beasley bleeding from a burst peptic ulcer and warned family members. |
Alert Hardin girl, 5, credited for saving grandfather's life
By TOM BERRY
Staff Writer
HARDIN, Ky. - If it weren't for his 5-year-old granddaughter's love for playing with her “Pap Paw,” Bennie “Gene” Beasley might not be alive today.
Beasley, who has a peptic ulcer, went to bed early on the night of June 13 at the Hardin home of his step-daughter Robin Porter. He wasn't feeling well and during the night his health took an almost fatal turn for the worst.
His ulcer burst and Beasley began to bleed profusely internally and could have suffocated in his own blood as it began flow into his lungs.
Luckily, Savannah Porter jumped out of bed early that morning while everyone else was snoozing and went to his bedroom where she tried to awaken him. She was unsuccessful, but she did notice that something just wasn't right.
Porter ran into her mother's bedroom to tell her there was something wrong.
“There was blood on him and on his face and on his mouth and all over the floor and I went to go get mom,” the girl said during an interview with the Murray Ledger & Times Thursday.
Robin Porter, a nurse, said she sleepily ignored her daughter at first because Beasley is known as a sound sleeper.
“She said her Pap Paw wouldn't wake up and he was slobbering. I didn't think much about it until she said he was slobbering black,” Robin said. “That's when I thought I'd better get up.”
Beasley lost about two pints of blood before his condition was discovered and emergency medical help could arrive.
For complete story, see today's Ledger & Times
Story created Jun 26, 2007 - 11:41:25 EDT.
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