Watch for a guaranteed smile: Cute little hero recounts saving his mother's life

7-year-old talks about calling 911, saving his mom's life A Staten Island mother's 7-year-old son sprung into action after he witnessed his his mom collapse at the kitchen table during dinnertime. Knowing just what to do, Jayden Allen-Walton, who's in the second-grade, immediately took his mom's iPhone and dialed 911 as she lay on the floor, unconscious and bleeding badly from her head.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Good job, kid.

A quick-thinking 7-year-old used his mom's iPhone to call 911 after she collapsed at their kitchen table during dinner on a recent Friday evening.

Michelene Bumbrey and her son, Jayden Allen-Walton, sitting at the kitchen table where she had passed out a few weeks prior at her home in Mariners Harbor. (Staten Island Advance/Ryan Lavis)

Jayden Allen-Walton, who's in the second-grade, knew just what to do in an emergency, and his mom says that his actions saved her life.

"If it wasn't for him, I would not be here today," Jayden's mom, Michelene Bumbrey, said during an interview at her home in Mariner's Harbor.

Adding, "He's my hero son."

Jayden says he's just glad to have his mom back home after spending five nights in the hospital.

"I knew she was going to be OK," the youngster said, sitting next to his mother at the same kitchen table where she had passed out Sept. 12.

DINNER READY, AND THEN ....

Ms. Bumbrey recalled that she had not been feeling well that entire Friday, but forced herself to start cooking dinner for her son anyway.

"I really think that I was holding on for him, because I had been sick the whole day," she said. "I prayed to God to give me a little bit of energy to fix him dinner, because this is our routine -- when he comes home from school, we sit down and have dinner together."

Michelene Bumbrey and her son, Jayden Allen-Walton, sitting at the kitchen table where she had passed out a few weeks prior at her home in Mariners Harbor. (Staten Island Advance/Ryan Lavis)

With chicken cooking on the stove top, Jayden's grandmother dropped him off at home following an after school program at P.S. 13 in Rosebank.

That's about when things took a turn for the worse.

The mother and son sat down to eat dinner, some homemade chicken and rice, when Ms. Bumbrey says she became lightheaded.

Her blood pressure dropped rapidly, she said, and without any notice, she passed out at the kitchen table, falling off her chair and smacking her head against the tile. The impact cut open her forehead and lip, as she lay unconscious and bleeding on the floor.

"I was feeling scared and I called 911. I told them, 'My mom's bleeding on the floor and they said they're coming," Jayden recalled.

Jayden contacted his Godmother to tell her what had happened, and also ran to his neighbor's house for help.

Emergency responders arrived at the house at around 8:40 p.m. and transported Ms. Bumbrey to Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, according to an FDNY spokesman.

"My blood pressure bottomed out," the mother said. "I could have died if the ambulance didn't come."

Ms. Bumbrey says she has been diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) -- an affliction that can cause a drop in blood pressure upon standing, according to Dysautonomia International.

For now, the mother-of-three is taking it easy as she continues to heal. The fall left a deep gash in the center of her forehead.

"I have to be careful what I do," she said. "I can't get up very fast, or be up for too long."

Her son's quick thinking came as no surprise to the proud mother.

"Jayden always says he wants to help people when he grows up," she said.

When asked, Jayden said he would like to become either a police officer or firefighter. And if that doesn't happen, he says his fallback occupation is professional wrestler.

Before then, Ms. Bumbrey says she hopes to thank her son by taking him to see his favorite superstars when WWE films a live episode of Raw at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn on Oct. 6.

"He deserves it," she said.

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