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Well... life is being life...
My mom choked and almost died, and I was the only person home. I know nothing about anything, so I was hoping I was slapping her on the back in the actual right way. I don't think I was, because she was still coughing and half choking.
After about 10 minutes, my sister came home and helped by actually helping, unlike me. She called people to take care of my little brother and got stuff for my mom.
Now we're in the car to go to the hospital, so... and now my mom said she's feeling better. Welp...
Anyone else hate life?
Well... guess I'll keep posted. Sorry for the long, long, long update.
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See if your school has any first aider type courses you can join - the Heimlich maneuver is the best known (and fairly effective) response to choking, and is basically a hard hug from behind (there is a little more to it than that, but surprisingly, only a little)
some schools here offer the full course as an elective (and given every business has to have a certain number of qualified first aiders, that can be a bonus on your resumé come job hunting time) but almost all will offer a basic lifesaving course after hours, around twice per year.
Knowing what to do, should it happen again, should make you feel better about the current situation; you weren't trained, so it isn't your fault you didn't know what to do. but you CAN fix that.
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