WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A little girl got a big hug from her mom and Charles County, Maryland, officials at a ceremony honoring her for a 911 call she made that probably saved her mother's life.

Samantha Mason was only 4-years-old in August when she found her mom unconscious at their home in Waldorf, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother had told her how to make an emergency call in case the child's grandmother ever had trouble.

"I always taught her (to call) 911 for my mom, a dialysis patient," Samantha's mother, Sharon Mason, told CNN. "I never expected it would be for me."

Mason said on the day of the incident, she was feeling ill and hadn't taken her diabetes medicine "because it wasn't agreeing" with her.

When she went to lie down, Mason said, she apparently slipped out of consciousness because her blood sugar was out of control.

Daughter Samantha came to the rescue, thanks to her mother's instruction.

"Mommy is sick," Samantha told Charles County 911 dispatcher Jaime Ostrander. "Mommy said to help her sugar. ... Mommy has diabetes."

Ostrander, who was also awarded in Tuesday's ceremony, kept Samantha calm and on the phone.

"I'm going to stay on the phone with you, ok, someone else is sending the ambulance... so you just keep letting me know what your mommy is doing," Ostrander told the little girl.

Samantha warned that when the paramedics arrived, they "might want to be careful because I left a big toy in the living room."

She also fretted that she wasn't dressed.

"The only thing I have on is my t-shirt," Samantha told Ostrander.

When paramedics arrived, Samantha opened the door for them and gave them the phone. But Ostrander wanted to talk to Samantha one last time.

"You did a really good job for your mommy," the dispatcher said. "You can hang up the phone and go get your clothes on now."

Mason said when she heard the recording of the 911 call, "I just put my head down and cried."

As for her daughter's reaction, Mason quoted Samantha as saying "Mommy, that's me again!"

Samantha turned 5 in September.

"I always say she is a gifted child," Mason told CNN proudly. She also said she has taken steps to not to let her diabetes get out of control again.

As county commissioners honored Samantha and Ostrander Tuesday, they also proclaimed November to be American Diabetes Month in Charles County.