Posted on 08/24/2014 2:38:05 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Chris Brown, a USPS mail carrier, was truly in the right place at the right time.
On Friday, as he was making his deliveries, a mother – Stephanie Cooper – ran outside holding her infant son, screaming for help.
Apparently the little boy, Eli, had managed to get a plastic wrapper lodged in his throat and his mom had tried unsuccessfully to remove it.
But thanks to emergency training provided by USPS, Brown knew exactly what to do. He immediately performed the Heimlich Maneuver on little Eli and got the wrapper out. He knew Eli would be fine when he started crying.
Although Brown doesn’t consider himself a hero, Cooper is sure that it is thanks to him that little Eli will be celebrating his 1st birthday this weekend.
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Well done Mr. Brown!
Good job!
So scary! Thank God this little guy if fine! Number three puts everything in her mouth. I can’t keep the floors clean enough.
Number two was like that. You have to be seven inches to catch everything haha
Unfortunately, like drownings, far more children die from choking than from firearms, yet there is no ban against small plastic wrappers (or backyard pools,.
I had to do that to one of my kids when he was an infant. My wife had posed all the kids on the table for a photo, and he started choking. One of the older boys said, “Penny”. I realized he’d dropped a coin down the poor kids’ throat and did the Heimlich. Out popped a penny.
yet.
How 'bout it fellow FReepers?
Have YOU been trained?
“What Can Brown Do For You?”
Apparently save a kids life! Well done!!
He's not a hero, just a guy who had a skill at the time and place it was needed. A hero sacrifices for the good of others.
However, if he had the skill but refused to employ it, he'd have been a worthless excuse for a human being.
And that brings up this:
The Hind Lick Maneuver
Two Texans were having lunch at their favorite
restaurant when they noticed
a young woman at the next table having trouble
breathing.
One of the Texans got up, walked over to her table,
took her face in his big
Texan hands and said, “Kin ya swaller?” She shook
her head ‘no.’ “Kin ya
breathe?” Again she shakes her head ‘no.’
The Texan grabs her around the waist with one of his
big Texan hands, turns
her over, pulls up her skirt, pulls down her panties
and licks her right on
the bottom! Of course the young woman was so shocked
that she coughed
causing the food to dislodge. The big Texan pulls
up her panties, pulls
down her skirt, turns her right side up, tips his
hat and returns to his seat.
His companion is sitting there stunned. “I have
never seen anything like
that in my whole life!” he says to his heroic
friend. The hero replies,
“Yeah, I tell ya, that Hind Lick maneuver works
every time!”
LOL! Now that’s something else again.
Butt it works!;)
Except for the Lawsuit part...
One of those things that just makes you shake your head.
One of the other leaders in our Cub Scouts pack is a paramedic, and he said they get calls from people saying their babies are choking to death. “Is that him I hear screaming, ma’am?” “Yes, he’s choking!!!” “Um, no ... he not. He couldn’t scream if he was choking.”
Ping for later
Rule 1 - If they are making vocal noise, continue to observe until distress abates.
Rule 2 - Do not slap on the back.
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