The smallest of the house usually have a great facility to use the latest technologies in a very intuitive way. In the case of Darcey, a 6-year-old girl from Glasgow, this practice and understanding with the virtual assistant Alexa has saved her mother’s life twice.
Emma Anderson, mother of the little girl, received a heart transplant and taught Darcey how to call for help through her Alexa device if she ever couldn’t do it herself due to a heart attack or other type of cardiovascular problem.
Emma recalls having everything in place for cases like this: “I set up Alexa so that if I fainted or didn’t feel well, all I had to do was say, ‘Alexa, ask for help,’ and it would contact my mother, who lives around the corner,” he explains.
The moment of truth has come more than once for little Darcey, who has had to put her training into practice on more than one occasion: “She is a superstar. She’s had to call Alexa a few times, including once calling an ambulance on her own. On that occasion I was very bad ”, explains the proud mother.
Emma’s heart problem is serious: “It’s as if my heart, instead of beating against a cushion, was beating against a brick wall, so it was getting more and more damaged,” she says, for which she urgently needed a transplant.
Thanks to the heart transplant, Emma’s life has changed completely: “I can walk to school and pick up Darcey. Over Easter, I managed to take Darcey swimming, to the park, and to a farm. Simple things that she couldn’t do before, she can do now. Now I can be a real mom,” she says.
