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Girl, 9, uses cell phone to send text messages and video to her mom after her grandfather falls ill
Brooklyn Levinson, 9, knew something was wrong when her grandfather stopped responding to her as they sat together at his Copiague breakfast table Saturday morning.
"Are you sleeping?" Brooklyn remembered asking Joe Barrella, 78. He had slumped over his cup of coffee, his eyes closed and his skin clammy. He shook his head.
"Are you praying?"
"Yes."
The quick-thinking girl, who had spent Friday night at Barrella's home as part of a family effort to keep him company at all times after the death of his wife, Grace, a week earlier, grabbed her cell phone and text-messaged her mother at her home in Dix Hills: "Grandpa is scaring me."
Then, with her phone's camera, she took a video of Barrella unconscious and sent that along, too.
"I kept hoping he would wake up," Brooklyn said. "I was so scared."
Within minutes, Brooklyn's mother, Janine Levinson, had arrived, called 911, and sent Barrella in an ambulance to Bruns.wick Hospital Center in Amityville, where he was successfully treated for a previously undiagnosed and life-threatening heart condition.
Brooklyn would have called 911 herself, "but she said she thought at first that he was crying because of Grandma and maybe wanted a moment to himself," explained Levinson, who added that she and her daughter communicate regularly via text messages. "She wanted to be quiet but tell me something wasn't right at the same time."
Plus, Brooklyn said, "I didn't know Grandpa's address."
Brooklyn, who is named after her father's beloved birthplace, didn't suggest that other kids follow her high-tech example if faced with the same emergency. "I'd tell them they should just call 911," she said.
Doctors treated Barrella for ventricular tachycardia, a potentially lethal disruption of the regular heartbeat that can keep the heart from pumping enough blood through the body.
"This was a precursor to sudden death," said Dr. Lawrence Kessler, who said his emergency team treated Barrella aggressively to stabilize him before sending him to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset for testing and observation.
"She was a hero. She recognized that something was terribly wrong with Grandpa," Kessler said. "An average child probably would have run away or been too afraid to stay, take a picture, transmit it and then follow up. For a 9-year-old, that's stupendous."
Barrella remembered nothing of the incident.
"She's a perfect hero and a smart little cookie," he said as he kissed his beaming granddaughter when she and her family visited him yesterday afternoon.
He should be home within a few days pending test results, said North Shore's David Levy, a nurse who has cared for Barrella since he was admitted Saturday.
The prospect of losing both parents in a week seemed too much to bear, said Brooklyn's aunt, Michele Meyer of Sayville, who joined her family at the hospital that morning. "The doctors were shouting, 'We're losing him!' ... I thought, we just can't do this again," she said.
"She saved my daddy's life," Meyer said of Brooklyn. "She's like a 50-year-old trapped in a child's body."
Brooklyn said she was just doing her part to look after Barrella after her grandmother's death. "I always try to help people," she said, adding that it was "weird" to be called a hero. "I've only heard about them in cartoons."
Levinson said her daughter is taking the incident -- and all the attention from her family -- in stride.
"She realizes she saved Grandpa's life, but she's not thinking twice about it," she said. "To her, that's just what you do. You help Grandpa."
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