Want to see something heartwarming?
In more ways than one.
I’ve already described how much I loved the TV show Rescue 911, and why. Those 80s hairdos may look quaint, but the people sporting them are heroes in the truest sense of the word.
And this lady sure can run:
Ah, for a cell phone!
Couple of people who had no reason to knew CPR. Probably never thought they’d use it.
I stayed awake, as far as I recall, in Army first aid and it paid off about twenty years ago at a motorcycle accident. What had happened to the guy isn’t taught in civilian Red Cross training. Cop said the EMT guy said I saved the guy’s life.
You never know. Learning something you think or hope you’ll never use is better than standing there with your thumb in your ear watching somebody die and wondering what to do.
For so many deeply personal reasons I love this clip. I benefited and am now alive thanks to an alert and deeply loved person and the CPR and quick actions of Seattle Firemen.
Let me tell you from the edge of the grave that knowing CPR is something everyone should know.
Hands together over the sternum, pump to the beat of Staying Alive.
I’m not kidding, Staying Alive gives you the right tempo.
Here’s the link to “The Two Step Method”
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/CPRAndECC/HandsOnlyCPR/Hands-Only-CPR_UCM_440559_SubHomePage.jsp
except for the blue hat, that could have been me.
there was an accident on the road in pearl river nyack area. an icecream truck made a left turn into oncoming traffic and a white pickup truck hit it head on at full speed. the driver was ejected. there was no help around, and so, rather than go sign for a new apartment, i pulled over and did the emt thing. the mans hip was broken, gas all over, i sheilded him with my body and continued to work. eventually the ambulance came, i continued to work with them, and they loaded both into the truck, and to the hospital. the man survives, i lose the apartment, and dont get back to the car on the side of the road for several hours.
next day..
my boss said that if he lets me leave work to do something, do NOT get your picture in the front page of the newspaper. we had to sneak around the office and try to get the copies of the local paper so that people would not recognize me. my name does not appear.
i do not know what happend to the man after that, we never met, i never contacted him afraid i might be sued for helping rather than driving on. he was a mess though.
i still have the clipping…
lots of stuff like that… two rapes stopped, one baby saved, several accidents, and so on…
not even a bit of good luck in return.. never to have raises or promotions for the rest of my life, if i leave i lose 5 years of pension contributions, and and and…
screw it all… 🙂
Society has collars upon their useful livestock. They don’t treat them as humans, but people don’t want to put the collar off because they are afraid to go it alone.
The only people they might have found that treated them as equals, were either other individuals or their equals.
Free medical care for cows and pigs, the farmer has. But at the price of being livestock, not human.
I know CPR.
What I don’t know is how to sprint like she did.
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Think she was a middle distance runner in high school? Damn.
Still, I’d have tried to drive around in front of the guy. I didn’t get what the man did with his truck. Push the car into a curb? Pull in front and stop? Seen the latter a couple of times.
Also useful to learn something about fighting. Unarmed, carry a gun, that sort of thing. I’ve helped out some people three or four times laying hands on perps, and half a dozen times more when the potential perps didn’t like my…confidence.
Aubrey….
It appears that she caught the car before the guy could enact Plan B.
He also seems to have had some second thoughts as the car closed on him from the rear. His Plan B had actually run out of room. It was going to turn into Plan C: let the car hit his truck — while it was parked.
But, she beat him to the wheel. She must have had one heck of a ‘kick’ to throw open the driver’s door AND still hold her position and get to the wheel. She must have jumped to it, then pulled herself inside.
My guess is that the car was actually cruising forward — at idle. Anything beyond that would be impossible for even an Olympian to catch.
Remember, she had to start from a parked car, get around her own door — and then take off on a sprint-marathon. Simply amazing, really.