Kylie Grimes was beyond exhausted.

It was 9:45 p.m. and she still hadn’t served dinner to her four kids. Her nerves had been worn thin after months of struggling to care for her two youngest children who had been diagnosed with diabetes. Between nighttime wake-ups and beeping monitors, she had been sleeping less than two hours at a stretch. Her husband was working late, 30 minutes from the house. Then her 11-month-old choked on soil from her house plant.

After calling poison control to make sure her son was OK, she called 911. When the dispatcher asked what the emergency was, Kylie said it was her.

“I just needed relief,” Kylie says in a phone interview with TODAY.com. “I needed the phones to stop beeping. I needed the kids to stop fighting. I needed the fear of trying to keep this baby

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