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I'd been thinking about starting a thread like this.
About a year ago, a young, buff guy collapsed in the gym near where I was working out. People kind of milled around, saying "Is he diabetic? Is he epileptic? They mumbled about CPR, and I said, "Nobody touch him as long as he keeps breathing."
Another guy and I established that we knew CPR. Then he quit breathing and began to turn blue. We started CPR, he pinked back up, and the paramedics arrived. They were unable to revive him in 5 or 10 minutes, and gurneyed him to the ambulance. I thought he was a goner. Found out later he was fine.
You know what occurs to me? He had friends there who didn't do anything, and although I filled out forms and signed my name to them, nobody connected to him ever even called me up and said "Thanks."
I know I would have, if I'd had my life saved by someone in that manner.
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Margaret Thatcher
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