Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:44:48 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: How goods the firstaid kit in your Westfalia?
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Jim,
Cool move, Mon.
Saved that kid's life no doubt. And that Mom will spend the rest of her
days thanking you, even if she didn't have presence of mind to do so in
the heat of the moment.
Congrats.
John Rodgers
Chelsea, AL
Jim Felder wrote:
> About a week ago I was in South Alabama at a meeting in the restaurant
> of a small marina, trying to get them a grant for fuel. We were all
> sitting at the bar (drinking tea, thank you) when this woman started
> screaming that her child couldn't breathe. I turned around to see this
> little kid, who reminded me of my nearly-four-year-old grandson,
> leaned back in the booth with a tray of chicken in front of him and a
> blank look on his wide-eyed face. The mother clearly didn't know what
> to do. she began crying, and she and another woman were patting him on
> the back. It wasn't helping, the child still couldn't make a sound.
> Nobody did anything so I grabbed the boy and turned his face to the
> floor and beat on his back. That didn't help. I held him in the same
> position--it had been a long time by now--and put my knee in his back
> and squeezed his chest with both arms. I heard something go pop and I
> turned him back upright and asked him to say something. He said weakly
> "OK." So I knew he was alright. The mom said she had to sit down, she
> was shaking so bad, so she did, and the boy went back eating, and I
> tried to rejoin the meeting but got a phone call I had to take and
> when I got off, the were gone. It was all a blur but I could swear the
> mom never even thanked me!
>
> She was really upset though.
>
> Nothing to do with a vanagon except I got there in one.
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Jake de
> Villiers<crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nice going Craig! =) That's good citizenship in action, something that's
>> faded from modern urban North America. Its good when we take care of each
>> other.
>>
>> Thanks for the tip on the mouth barrier. I'll check Dixie's First Aid Kit
>> tomorrow.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:14 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> So I just got off from another long day of work teaching both youth and
>>> adult sailing lessons at the Marina today, my summer Job in Reno Nevada
>>> 2009, and I headed over to the local Chevron station to grab a cool drink.
>>> On my way In I see these two nice people, well dressed, sitting in the
>>> grass
>>> with a sign and a guitar. The sign read "$20 to get us to Truckee". I
>>> pulled
>>> my VW Bus into a parking spot and walked over to engage these nice young
>>> and
>>> surprisingly well dressed transients. Upon talking to them I stated "Well I
>>> don't have much money, so I can't help you to Truckee, but I thought i'd
>>> offer to buy you guys a cool drink, if that would help?". We got to talking
>>> and they said they were actually offering $20 for someone to drive them
>>> just
>>> over the border to Truckee, as I guess the cops in Nevada hate hitching
>>> rides while California is cool with it. They've been transient for 4 years
>>> now, from New Jersey, playing guitar along the way to get by! Well I was
>>> talking with them, and an older gentleman whom I later found out was 65
>>> years old comes walking over and says something softly. I said to him
>>> "What's that I can't hear you?" as he grasps his chest and gives a breath
>>> asking to call 911!
>>>
>>> Sure enough I bust out my trusty Cellular Phone and start dialing the
>>> numbers. I got some voice message and static, It didn't seem as If i were
>>> talking to anyone, so I ran inside the building instead. I get inside
>>> (Leaving Philip, the 65 year old heart attack victim, with the young
>>> couple)
>>> while I grabbed their phone. I spoke with the gentleman clerk and asked to
>>> borrow his phone to call 911, as a man was having trouble in their parking
>>> lot. I talked with 911 which had dispatched paramedics as I ran back out to
>>> see our man, at this point sitting on the curb having an awful lot of
>>> trouble breathing. We pulled out some paper and started writing down
>>> everything He said As we asked him a series of questions. We got a list of
>>> his current medications compiled, his past ailments, his name, etc while he
>>> drifted off and had further trouble breathing. He said he had open heart
>>> surgery years ago, had a history of chronic heart failure, and had just
>>> taken 3 "Nitros". His heart was definitely fibrillating based on his pulse,
>>> it was erratic and strange. By the time the fire department, followed
>>> closely by an ambulance arrived, he was in poor shape. I asked the Gas
>>> station attendant for an AED or even just a mouth barrier should I need to
>>> start CPR, but these words seemed very foreign to them.... yet they spoke
>>> perfect english.
>>>
>>> The Paramedics took Philip away on a stretcher, after hooking him up to an
>>> AED and providing him with Oxygen. I do hope all is well with him. They
>>> arrived promptly and were top notch. It pays to have first aid training,
>>> and
>>> be in the right place at the right time!
>>>
>>>
>>> I stopped to help to transients with a cold beverage, and ended up helping
>>> a
>>> man with a failing heart.
>>>
>>>
>>> When I went into the store to purchase said beverages for my new friends,
>>> the gentleman clerk praised me with many graces, wished God's blessings
>>> upon
>>> myself and my family, and wished me a wonderful day. Safe travels were
>>> awarded too, and from, the transient couple.
>>>
>>> What a way to end a long day!
>>>
>>>
>>> Things would have been all that much less worrisome if I had a good
>>> firstaid
>>> kit in my Vanagon. Be sure to get a mouth barrier device, should you ever
>>> need to do CPR (and they are currently teaching just chest compressions
>>> though....).
>>>
>>> Good day to all!
>>>
>>>
>>> -Craig
>>>
>>> '85GL turned WESTY
>>>
>>> BOSTIG in the back
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Jake
>>
>> 1984 Vanagon GL
>> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>>
>> Crescent Beach, BC
>>
>> www.thebassspa.com
>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
>>
>>
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