CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman called the wrong
number when she was experiencing a medical attack but still found help a
couple of time zones away.
Seventy-year-old Loretta Smith felt
her right side go numb and fell to the floor at her home in Cuyahoga
(ky-uh-HOH’-guh) Falls last weekend.
She tells multiple news
outlets she was able to grab the phone with her left hand and thought
she was calling her son. Instead, she was one digit off and reached a
man in the Denver area who was originally from northeast Ohio and had
kept the same number after he moved.
Smith told 28-year-old Kenny
Crater that she thought she was having a stroke, and he called 911 on
her behalf. She says Crater saved her life.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman called the wrong
number when she was experiencing a medical attack but still found help a
couple of time zones away.
Seventy-year-old Loretta Smith felt
her right side go numb and fell to the floor at her home in Cuyahoga
(ky-uh-HOH’-guh) Falls last weekend.
She tells multiple news
outlets she was able to grab the phone with her left hand and thought
she was calling her son. Instead, she was one digit off and reached a
man in the Denver area who was originally from northeast Ohio and had
kept the same number after he moved.
Smith told 28-year-old Kenny
Crater that she thought she was having a stroke, and he called 911 on
her behalf. She says Crater saved her life.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.