Officer Copley with Irmo Police who had just left in his car from eating his own breakfast and came flying back to assist and call for EMS and then later got in his car to find the ambulance who didn’t go to the right place. The waitresses and patrons who comforted my kids while my wife was with Gabriel and I was calling 911. the owner of Eggs Up, who helped care for my wife after. The retired RNs who came to help with CPR (thank God he ended up not really needing it).
I will forever be grateful to those people who came to help. We both took a CPR and Heimlich maneuver class while he was in the NICU but you kind of lose that part of your brain when it is your kid. He started turning blue, my wife started yelling for help, and multiple people sprung to our aid. However, it quickly turned into a nightmare. He started choking a little but due to his trachea repair he had as a newborn, we didn’t think much of it at first because he often chokes a little. He got a hold of a larger piece of pancake and slipped it in his mouth before we even realized it. We were eating breakfast at Eggs Up Grill. With all that being said, I am also amazed at how every single person witnessing the scene will forever be branded in my mind. Or how I felt like puking and couldn’t stop thinking how I wouldn’t be able to handle losing another child. Or how my daughters just stared in shock. It was the most terrifying thing I have ever seen. Here is a portion of the father’s story he shared: We gave ours to the parents of the little boy and the restaurant owner also just purchased one to keep on hand at the restaurant as well as multiple people in the restaurant dining ordered some to keep in their cars as that moment may come one day for them to save someone’s life as we did this morning.” Thanks to LifeVac the little one will be celebrating his 1 birthday next month!! Food started coming out of his airway and after a few times, he started breathing again.The ambulance arrived about 5mins later and I sincerely do not believe the boy would have made it without LifeVac. He laid him down on a table and started the suction with LifeVac. By the time my husband came back in, the child was lifeless. A nurse was present in the restaurant and wasn’t able to open the child’s airway. My husband grabbed the keys to the car and ran to get the LifeVac. We had bought it a few years ago when our daughter was a toddler and have kept it in the car ever since just in case…… well that case happened this morning! While eating breakfast at the restaurant this morning we heard a mom scream that her son was choking. LifeVac saved the life of a little boy this morning.
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