This story is a great example of Scout training paying off!
Florence teen saves grandmother's life with Heimlich maneuver
MORNING NEWS/ DWIGHT DANAJacob Suggs, right, poses for a portrait with his grandmother Donna Hewett.suggs, a 13 year- old boy scout recently saved his Grandmothers life by performing the hymilc manuver which he learned in Boy Scouts. “I was eating cereal with nuts in it when I looked up at a picture,” Hewett recalled. “I had a mouth full. The food all of a sudden ran down my throat before I could swallow and I choked.”
By Dwight Dana
Published: February 16, 2011
FLORENCE — Jacob Suggs, 13, was studying poetry at home while recovering from the flu when he heard strange sounds coming from the kitchen.
He yelled for his grandmother, Donna Hewett, who was staying with him while his mother was out of town.
When he didn’t get an answer, he ran to the kitchen.
“Grandma couldn’t speak, and her face was really red,” Jacob said. “I knew immediately that she was choking on something.”
Jacob went behind his grandmother and began performing the Heimlich maneuver, a life-saving procedure he learned when he joined the Boy Scouts.
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