Did the Heimlich on a little bitty old lady in a restaurant.I’d been a Green Beret ‘A’ team medic and been lifting weights and teaching martial arts for ten years or so…and I wondered if I could do this…I grabbed her from behind, ready to give her the humongest squeeze, AND…suddenly I realized she weighed about as much as an empty sack and wasn’t much bigger around than a broomstick…and scaled it ‘WAY backon the force…! the chunk came out very easily…easiest good deed I’ve ever done, I guess…scariest, too, when I realized how hard I’d been ready to squeeze and shake her…
tigre1 said, “Did the Heimlich on a little bitty old lady "Good on you. Them lil’ birdy-ladies are tough to work on. You don’t want to break ‘em, just save ’em. Hard to gaugethe pressure.. An aside; a local ex-GB fire-volunteer EMS guy stabbed me about 5x in search of a vein, after me telling him ’where and how’ .. He told me that he was an ex-Nam-GB and knew what he was doing, so STF up. (prob; my MD’s mixup of BP meds) After I was carted home, we compared ranks and dates of service and my O-3 beat his E-3. by 8 years. I still buy him a beer once in a while. He’s still an arrogant oaf.
It’s Id all right – as much as B.C.‘s world, it’s full of anachronisms. Id has always had such restaurants to my knowledge. It’s also had golf, the nightly news, and jokes about modern customs and technologies, mixed right in with fantastic dragons, magical impossibilities and never-changing petty officials, hair-covered Huns and cowardly knights. Is this your first visit to our noble kingdom?
heimlich maneuver has been disapproved by AHA and ARC for decades. different maneuver now, fewer broken ribs, punctured lungs and ruptured internal organs. and incorrectly using a nationally “outlawed” method like this can void the Good Samaritan exemption laws in this case in nearly every jurisdiction. noone teaches it, so you are immediately negligent in attempting to use it. with leniency, you might get manslaughter 2. Good Luck!
revisages almost 12 years ago
i was literally laughing aloud when i read yours
Hillbillyman almost 12 years ago
Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member almost 12 years ago
HillbillymanThere’s an app for everything?? ‘ALAKA-HEIMLICH’ is so funny it’s hard to follow it with any punchline.
abbatis almost 12 years ago
So is the APP for indigestion ALAKA-SELTZER?
tigre1 almost 12 years ago
Did the Heimlich on a little bitty old lady in a restaurant.I’d been a Green Beret ‘A’ team medic and been lifting weights and teaching martial arts for ten years or so…and I wondered if I could do this…I grabbed her from behind, ready to give her the humongest squeeze, AND…suddenly I realized she weighed about as much as an empty sack and wasn’t much bigger around than a broomstick…and scaled it ‘WAY backon the force…! the chunk came out very easily…easiest good deed I’ve ever done, I guess…scariest, too, when I realized how hard I’d been ready to squeeze and shake her…
Alaka-Heimlich ! is much more deft. Salute, Wiz.
Dewed almost 12 years ago
They cut out the part … where it goes in her drink
jdthird almost 12 years ago
Looked more like there’s a ZAPP for that.
goweeder almost 12 years ago
“Where is this place? That doesn’t look like a medieval restaurant to me.”__________Just curious… how does a medieval restaurant look?
unca jim almost 12 years ago
tigre1 said, “Did the Heimlich on a little bitty old lady "Good on you. Them lil’ birdy-ladies are tough to work on. You don’t want to break ‘em, just save ’em. Hard to gaugethe pressure.. An aside; a local ex-GB fire-volunteer EMS guy stabbed me about 5x in search of a vein, after me telling him ’where and how’ .. He told me that he was an ex-Nam-GB and knew what he was doing, so STF up. (prob; my MD’s mixup of BP meds) After I was carted home, we compared ranks and dates of service and my O-3 beat his E-3. by 8 years. I still buy him a beer once in a while. He’s still an arrogant oaf.
Dave Thorby almost 12 years ago
He came up behind you and shouted “Alaka-Heimlich”? Wow!
Rakkav almost 12 years ago
It’s Id all right – as much as B.C.‘s world, it’s full of anachronisms. Id has always had such restaurants to my knowledge. It’s also had golf, the nightly news, and jokes about modern customs and technologies, mixed right in with fantastic dragons, magical impossibilities and never-changing petty officials, hair-covered Huns and cowardly knights. Is this your first visit to our noble kingdom?
dfowensby almost 12 years ago
heimlich maneuver has been disapproved by AHA and ARC for decades. different maneuver now, fewer broken ribs, punctured lungs and ruptured internal organs. and incorrectly using a nationally “outlawed” method like this can void the Good Samaritan exemption laws in this case in nearly every jurisdiction. noone teaches it, so you are immediately negligent in attempting to use it. with leniency, you might get manslaughter 2. Good Luck!
frrykid Premium Member almost 12 years ago
I wasn’t aware you could do the Heimlich without touching the person!
coffeemugman almost 12 years ago
Nothing close to funny. On the show “Scrubs”, however, when Dr. Cox Heimlichs multiple people, same object (from one to the next, and the next…).