Boy Saves His Friend from Choking at School: ‘I just did my thing, which was a Heimlich’
In surveillance video from a North Carolina school, a 9-year-old boy stepped in to save his friend from choking by using the Heimlich Maneuver.
The boy said he learned this classic, lifesaving technique for clearing the airways by watching YouTube, showing that maybe a little screen time isn’t all that bad.
WRAL News first reported the story that at Raleigh Oak Charter School, young Jayceon Branch nonchalantly saved the life of his 7-year-old friend, Darren.
“We were playing basketball and he ate a granola bar and we started playing longer until he started choking,” the Branch told WRAL News. “I didn’t know he was actually, actually choking, so I just did my thing, which was a heimlich.”
The surveillance footage indeed shows them playing basketball with 2 other kids when the shorter of the two suddenly stopped and bent over. Wasting no time at all, Branch, who can be seen in the white shirt, gave two compressions on Darren’s abdomen, which dislodged the food.
The remarkable part is how quickly everything went back to normal.
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“I’ve had to be called to the school before; for him,” Jayceon’s father said with a wry smile. “But I was hoping this time, like ‘Oh god, don’t let this be this again.”
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But, he said, because he missed the call he got to listen to the voicemail telling him the good news: his part-time trouble-maker had become a part-time hero.
WRAL was able to show the footage to the parents of both boys, who watched in amazement at the quick response of the older one to save his friend, the foundation of a friendship that will surely last a lifetime.
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