When it's not your time to go, it's not your time to go. April 12th was not Kyle Semrau's day to leave this earth.
The day started as usual, with one big 1 : Kyle's 6-year-old daughter Macie refused to go to kindergarten. She only sat in the basement room.
This 2 is unusual for the kindergartner, but she was just really missing her dad that morning. It was also the one-year anniversary of her grandmother's death, so she needed some extra 3 . When Kyle got home from his night job, he agreed to spend a 4 day with his daughter and 4-year-old son, Caleb, while his wife was at work.
Kyle wasn't feeling very well when he got home that day. Later that morning, he lost consciousness repeatedly. When he was 5 , he was yelling for help.
As fate would have it, help was in the house! Macie heard her father and realized she needed to do something. While Caleb comforted their dad, she 6what happened like someone three times her age.
At one of Kyle's conscious moments, Macie 7 him to tell her the password of the cellphone so that she could 8 the phone. Then, she called the police.
Administrative assistant Judy Smith picked up the telephone at the Eliot Police Department. To her 9, Macie almost10everything, including her home address, her dad's name and age, and how police could best get to him inside the basement room where he'd been resting.
Police arrived in just two minutes and 11 sent Kyle to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital.
Kyle spent three days 12in the hospital. "If I can say anything about this 13 experience, it's for everyone to teach kids about awareness," said Kyle. "If I hadn't taught my daughter certain things she couldn't learn in school, this outcome could have been 14 different. Macie deserves to be 15.
