This story touches me in many ways.
For 20 years I was a volunteer EMT with Lackawaxen Volunteer Ambulance Service in Northeast Penn.
I was also a certified CPR instructor for the American Heart Association. Often times You wonder if your efforts were doing any good, especially if you showed up at a home for an "emergency" and found the patient with their bags packed, ready for a "taxi" ride to the Hospital.
Spartanburg,SC Had an incident that helps affirm what all CPR instructors hope to achieve, the saving of a human life.
On a day with sunny skies, a lightning bolt struck during a soccer practice at Oakbrook Prep School, This Bolt knocked most of the soccer team to the ground. It left two people laying on the ground. The rest ran into the school screaming for help and 911.
Some, at the school, like Marie Tewkesbury, ran out and started administering CPR. Unfortunately, one of the people struck by the lightning bolt didn't make it.
However, the other person struck by that lightning bolt, Tim Blakeney, did make it, thanks to the efforts of folks that had just taken a CPR course. Affirming that sometimes, Your efforts bear fruit.
CPR works.........
There are Heroes amongst us.......
For the full story, click below
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20070911/NEWS/709110319
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