“Someone else will lend a helping hand,” a physician told me once, when asked to help with an emergency in public. As a PALS instructor for more than a decade, I have always responded when possible. In the last decade, there have been three in-flight emergencies, two elderly individuals who passed out in church, and a host of other less serious maladies. A week ago, I discovered the best reason I can think of to respond to medical emergencies yet.
“Did you save that man, mommy?” my 4 year old daughter asked while looking at the dented vintage red VW bug in front of her school.
“No, I was there to help him if he needed me”, I answered. I had been stopped on a two lane road with my left turn signal blinking to turn into the driveway of her preschool. I was five minutes early, which is as unusual as the events that unfolded next. Two cars behind me a driver was attempting to pass the line of cars and tried to stop, realizing it was unsafe. He skidded leftward into oncoming traffic as a group of motorcycles passed going the opposite way. The sound of shattering glass followed as the motorcycle and automobile collided.
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