Manchin gives McCaskill Heimlich maneuver after choking, McCaskill suffers broken rib

MSN CNN ^ | June 25, 2018

[SMGFan]

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill suffered a broken rib after choking at a Senate lunch Thursday, where her Senate colleague Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, performed the Heimlich maneuver to save her.

The story was first reported by The Washington Post.

"She started choking. People cough, you think, well. And then started getting real red. 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe,' " Manchin said Monday. "I was big enough and tall enough to get some leverage on her and pick her up off her feet. I kept jerking and jerking and jerking until she said, 'You're hurting me now.' "

He continued: "I knew she could breathe then. I just go underneath her breastplate and give it all I had. ... We were all just so thankful. It was all so scary. You can't imagine."

[Secret Agent Man]

No one corrected him, oh well. ;)

[Pearls Before Swine]

He should have reversed the usual Heimlich order: broken rib, followed by choking.

[ConservaTexan]

He probably told her the latest poll #s from Missouri.

[Aquamarine]

My grandmother had a broken rib from a hug.

[C210N]

A good half of the population is in constant need of the Heimlich maneuver.

[DownInFlames]

I would have crushed her to death.

[Moorings]

"... pick her up off her feet. I kept jerking and jerking and jerking until she said, 'You're hurting me now.' "

Sorry!! I could not help it... I read that and just burst out laughing.

**Bad boy, Moorings**

[old-ager]

Joe has some good instincts. Too bad he’s sold out to the leftist party. We need to get him out.

[Billthedrill]

It happens a lot. CPR can actually be dangerous, you can have ribs puncture stuff.

Oh, yeah. An EMT friend of mine did it (successfully) on an elderly woman and said he was horrified to actually feel her ribs break. But she lived.

[Songcraft]

Fortunately, the timely intervention by the senator was captured for posterity in this opportune photo:

       

[headstamp 2]

[Men don’t know their own strength. I’ve been hurt by big guys with just a simple enthusiastic hug.]

I’ve been meaning to apologize for that.

[EdnaMode]

Choking would be a terrible way to go.

[luvbach1]

Maybe pulling firmly would have been better than “giving it all I had.”

[NFHale]

“...The democrat hag will probably sue him....”

Only if he switches party to GOP.

[cyclotic]

From my training, especially with older people,. broken ribs are not unusual. Almost expected with CPR.

[Jane Long]

He certainly has the height to get 'to get some leverage on her'....

[null and void]

I’m not going to say It.

Me neither, but I will note in passing that it was the McCaskill memo that gave the political cover for the son of a British Subject to run for president.

She gave us 8 years of obama.

[Jaxter]

If I still lived in West Virginia, that right there would be enough to keep me from voting for him.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

He should have put his arms around her neck. Much more effective way to save America.

“Missed it by that much”.

[Georgia Girl 2]

At DiFis age she probably has some osteoporosis and not too hard to crack a rib.