Sharon Lewis said she fell and hit her head on a cement step late at night. The only other person around to help her was her 3-year-old great-grandson.
STRASBURG, Colo. — When his great-grandmother, Sharon Lewis, fell and needed help, 3-year-old Bridger Peabody braved the dark.
At the time, Lewis said she had just brought Bridger home to Strasburg from Children’s Hospital, where his older sister was getting treatment after hurting her finger. Lewis said she offered to watch Bridger while his family stayed with his sister.
“We went up to the backyard, dark backyard,” Lewis said. “We did really good. Then we got up to the door where I was going to get the keys out. Well, I must have tripped over something just sticking up there.”
“She had her walker and then she fell on our porch,” Bridger said.
Lewis said she hit her head on a large, cement step.
“She bonked her head, and it popped open,” Bridger described.
Lewis said she told her great-grandson she was okay, though blood covered her head and soaked her clothes. She was thankful she didn’t pass out so she could try and work with Bridger to get proper help.
“We tried hollering for the neighbor because we saw her lights on,” Lewis said.
Lewis said the neighbor couldn’t hear them, which meant Bridger was going to have to be her hero.
“I said, ‘You know what? You’re going to have to go out to the car and get my phone,'” Lewis said.
She said Bridger turned to head to the driveway where the cars were. Shortly after he left, he came back.
“He said, ‘It’s too dark, GG,'” Lewis said. “I said, ‘I know, but you’re going to have to be brave. Jesus will help you.”
“I was scared outside in the really dark,” Bridger said, thinking back.
She said Bridger went out again and made it to the car.
“And he yells, ‘I got it, GG!'” Lewis said, with a laugh.
Lewis said Bridger brought her the phone, and she was able to call other family members to help take care of Bridger and herself.
She said she was taken to UCHealth Anschutz for medical treatment, where doctors told her she had a serious concussion and put 22 staples in her head.
Lewis said if Bridger hadn’t been with her that night, she doesn’t know what she would have done.
“He’s just a blessing,” Lewis said. “I call him a hero. He goes, ‘No. I’m Bridger.’ He’s not quite sure what a hero is, I think, but he definitely is.”