Sean C. Morgan
A 6-year-old boy is hero to a local woman who slipped dangerously close to a diabetic coma on July 13 – Friday the thirteenth.
“As far as I’m concerned, he’s my little hero,” said Mary Justice of Christopher Tenbusch, son of Brandy and Jeromie Tenbusch.
Justice’s blood sugar levels dropped without warning, she said, and she was quickly slipping into a diabetic coma. She doesn’t remember talking to Christopher, but she did communicate with him, and he calmly sought help.
“I guess I asked him to go get Lanette (Smith, apartment manager),” Justice said.
“I was playing with my friend,” Christopher said. Seated on the couch, Justice spoke to him through a screen door and told him to “come here.”
She told him to go get help.
He went to Smith’s door, and she told him she would be out in a minute.
He returned to Justice’s door, Christopher said. “She fell over, and I went and got Lanette.”
He returned to Smith’s door, and he told her that Justice was on the floor. She responded immediately and called for paramedics.
Sweet Home paramedics responded, Justice said.
They gave her an injection and made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for her, and she avoided even having to go to the hospital.
“He can always look back and know he saved somebody’s life that day,” Smith said. “I was just proud because he was so calm, just like we’ve been telling him.”
Christopher’s father and mother were at work at the time. His grandmother was watching him.