WINTER HAVEN, FL (JUNE 27, 2009) – Most mornings, Jennifer Williamson listens to 97 Country WPCV in Lakeland, but one morning, she got a call to action.
That morning two mothers told why it is important to learn American Red Cross first aid and CPR: One of them saved the other one’s child from drowning.
Back in October 2008, Teresa Butler was having a birthday party for her older son at a swimming pool. The younger son, Dalton, was right behind her on the steps to the pool, but when she turned around, he was gone. After a frantic search, she saw him face down in the pool.
She jumped in, got him, out, and a family friend and a stranger immediately started rescue breaths and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. They soon revived him, and after being checked out at the hospital, he was OK.
The stranger was Michelle Lopez, who joined Teresa on the radio that morning. Michelle said she learned CPR because she her son once had a seizure, and didn’t know what to do, but a person who knew Red Cross CPR helped them.
Jennifer Williamson has an 8-month-old niece and wanted to be sure nothing would ever happen to her, so she immediately signed up her husband John and her mother, Barbara Rohde, for a Red Cross First Aid and CPR class at the local chapter, which they completed on Saturday, June 27.
Barbara, who was a lifeguard for many years, said she was glad just to have the chance to renew. Jennifer said the first person who came to her mind was her niece, and she just wanted to make sure she would be safe.
“God forbid, if anything happened, we’d know what to do,” she said.
To take a class, contact your Polk Red Cross at (863) 294-5941, or look up classes on the Mid-Florida Region web site at www.midfloridaredcross.org.
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Ritu De Sharma // July 10, 2009 at 5:55 am |
Educating and providing training about AED and AEDs products is a vital rople in today world where 100000 people die daily due to heart attack. AED is an electronic device that intellect the heart beat of a person and automatically applies an electric shock if an abnormality is sensed. It is built with smarter intelligence that while sensing the rhythm of the heart it checks weather there is a need of a shock.
Ritu De Sharma // July 10, 2009 at 5:56 am |
my apologies its 100000 people die yearly of cardic attack
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