Toddler, 3, Saves Nice-Grandma After She Suffers Scary Fall (Unique)

A 3-year-old toddler heroically saved his great-grandmother after she fell and wanted assist.

Bridger Peabody, 3, braved the darkish after his great-grandmother Sharon Lewis fell outdoors her Strasburg, Colo., residence in February, they instructed KUSA on Tuesday, March 11. 

On the night time of the accident, Bridger stayed along with his great-grandmother, whom he affectionately calls “GiGi.” He was with Lewis as a result of his household was staying on the Youngsters’s Hospital, the place his older sister, Tenleigh, was being handled after hurting her finger in a procuring cart, his mom, Stephanie Peabody, solely tells PEOPLE.

As the 2 approached Lewis’ residence, she fell and hit her head on the nook of a cement step.

“We went as much as the yard, darkish yard,” Lewis instructed KUSA. “Then we obtained as much as the door the place I used to be going to get the keys out. Properly, I should have tripped over one thing simply sticking up there.”

“She had her walker after which she fell,” Bridger mentioned. “She bonked her head and it popped open.”

“We tried hollering for the neighbor as a result of we noticed her lights on,” Lewis mentioned.

After 5 minutes, Bridger instructed Lewis that the neighbors could not hear their calls, Stephanie tells PEOPLE.

Lewis defined to KUSA that she needed to inform her great-grandson that she was okay regardless of the blood overlaying her head and soaking her garments, however she would nonetheless want his assist to get extra help.

“I mentioned, ‘ what? You’re going to must exit to the automotive and get my cellphone,'” Lewis mentioned. “He mentioned, ‘It is too darkish, GiGi.’ I mentioned, ‘I do know, however you are going to must be courageous. Jesus will allow you to.’ ”

“I used to be scared outdoors within the actually darkish,” Bridger recalled for the information station.

In surveillance footage of the incident, Bridger is seen going to the driveway as Lewis says, “Open the door.” As he goes to Lewis’ automotive, he’s heard telling himself, “Don’t be afraid.” As soon as inside, he says, “Yay! I did it!” He then yells again at her when he retrieves the cellphone, “I obtained it, GiGi,” Lewis instructed KUSA.

Bridger returned the cellphone to Lewis so she may name different members of the family for additional help. She instructed the outlet an ambulance took her to UCHealth Anschutz, the place she was instructed she had a critical concussion and wanted 22 staples in her head. Stephanie mentioned the staples had been eliminated and Lewis “is recovering nice!”

Stephanie, who’s Lewis’ granddaughter, was not conscious of any of this till she was alerted of movement in her driveway, she tells PEOPLE. “After I opened my app, all I noticed was ambulances in our driveway, so I referred to as my mother in a panic,” she mentioned.

“She instructed me all the things was OK that Grandma fell and that Tim, our neighbor, had Bridger and Darcee, his spouse, was with Grandma,” she mentioned. “In that second, I felt very overwhelmed and began crying.”

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“[His dad] Matt and I can’t be extra happy with him and the way courageous he was in that second as a result of he’s petrified of the darkish,” Stephanie tells PEOPLE. “GiGi calls him her hero. She doesn’t know what she would have finished if he wasn’t there.”

“He’s only a blessing,” Lewis instructed KUSA. “I name him a hero. He goes, ‘No. I’m Bridger.’ He’s not fairly positive what a hero is, I believe, however he undoubtedly is.”