Sunday, February 14, 1999
Mother's 911 call
Below are excerpts from a 911 call to Cincinnati's emergency communications center at 12:10 p.m. Saturday from 799 Dutch Colony Ave.
Caller: (Later identified as Belanda L. Moore) : “Yes, can I please have an emergency truck sent to 799 Dutch Colony?
911: Is this for you?
Caller: No, it's for my daughter.
911: How old is she?
Caller: Seven.
911: Is she awake and alert?
Caller: I don't know. She ... she ... has a history of faking things but I don't know if this time she's faking. She hasn't eaten. She won't drink. Every time she eats, she throws it up. Now she's just laying there.
(Later in conversation)
911: OK. But she's breathing OK? That you know of? She doesn't appear to be breathing heavy or having a hard time breathing?
Caller: Well she's having a hard time breathing. She WAS talking. She's not saying anything now.
911: OK. I'm going to send somebody out to 799 Dutch Colony Drive and if she starts to, you know, get worse ... like if her breathing gets worse ... I want you to call back if she does that before we get there. I have somebody on the way, OK?
Caller: (more emotional now) I don't think she's breathing.
911: She is breathing?
Caller: I don't think she's breathing, ma'am.
911: She's not breathing at all?
Caller: Her mouth is just open and her eyes are open.
(911 operator gives step-by-step instructions to check breathing, clear her airway and give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation)
911: OK, check her pulse. Place your index and middle finger over her left nipple and feel carefully for a pulse. Don't press hard but feel for five seconds.
Caller: OK, I feel something.
911: You do feel a pulse?
Caller: Yes.
911: OK, so she is breathing. OK. Like I said, I have somebody on the way. I can stay on the line if you want me to. You want me to stay on the line?
Caller: Yes, please.
(911 operator asks caller to hold while she communicates with paramedics, then caller speaks up).
Caller: Oh man. Her stomach looks like ... I don't know ... It's not her regular stomach. It's like tight or something.
911: Her stomach feels hard? OK. Do you know if she ate anything?
Caller: No. Because she tried to eat all yesterday. She kept going, "No she couldn't drink nothing.' And it happened all night and now it's still happening.
911: OK. Every time she eats it comes back up?
Caller: Yes.
911: OK. Now you say she fakes a lot? This doesn't seem like the same thing, does it?
Caller: No, it doesn't.
911: How long has she been laying like that?
Caller: For about maybe 10 minutes.
911: 10 minutes?
Caller: 10 or 15 minutes.
911: Do you know what she was doing just before that?
Caller: She was trying to throw up.
911: OK. And then she just laid down?
Caller: Yes.
911: Did they say anything about what she had at school? That she may have eaten something at school that made her sick?
Caller: Um, no. All I saw was purple stuff coming up. And, um, see, she has some behavior problems. And I whipped her yesterday and she just kept saying my stomach hurt and I thought it was another fake. But it's been going on for two days.
(The paramedics arrive. The 911 operator tells Mrs. Moore to go to them, then hangs up.)
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