In December 2024, Christina Hernandez was excited to see her beloved grandfather on a family trip to California. However, several hours after arriving, it would be Christina who recognized that her grandpa, who is diabetic, was having a medical emergency and called 9-1-1.
The effort saved his life.
Paramedics on the scene discovered his blood glucose level was beyond what their instruments could measure and he was about to go into a diabetic coma had it not been for Christina’s presence of mind that something was wrong. The teen recalls her grandfather’s face began to droop slightly on one side and his hand was holding his cards oddly.
“I thought he might have been having a stroke,” Christina said. “We were playing cards and he was trying to talk to us, but it was coming out funny. And then he wanted to go lie down, but I would not let him.”…