Posted on 03/16/2013 9:32:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A Georgia mother says it was a pair of 9 and 10-year-old neighborhood boys who ran to her rescue and instructed her how to perform CPR on her two-month-old son after hearing her desperate cries for help.
When Susanna Rohm’s son Isaiah abruptly stopped breathing on Monday afternoon she was sitting home alone and in her panic lost her cell phone, and as she immediately felt, any chance of calling 911.
'I was sitting in the living room with the baby and I noticed that he was off that day. He seemed kind of non-responsive to my smile. Something didn't feel right. At that point I put my finger under his nose and realized he was not breathing,' she told 11alive.
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Land lines. Are a wonderful thing. Think also of people you knew 20 years ago and have lost track of. Our son had his cell stolen so didn’t have our cell numbers but remembered his # from when he was a kid and called in crisis at 2:30 am. The person who stole my sons phone left his.
Better to know how to do something and not need to than to need to do something and not know how. Good for them.
Great story.
Hopefully this made it possible to quickly apprehend the miscreant - sounds like a dumb criminal story.
btt
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