An Illinois substitute teacher shares why she rushed to help a choking student.
MOUNT VERNON, Ill. -- A substitute teacher is receiving praise after she saved a choking student's life.This silent surveillance video captures a normal lunchtime for students at Davie School in Anna, Illinois. But if you look closer, one student appears to be in trouble.
"I pick up my corndog to eat and halfway through, I take a little bit too big of a bite and then I start to choke," said Ryan Buckner, a 5th-grade student."I couldn't think straight and I was scared," he said."He looked at me. He had his hands like this, I automatically ran over there. I turn him around and I started doing the abdominal thrust," Carwyle recalled.
Carwyle was trained how to perform the abdominal thrust, also known as the Heimlich maneuver, from a CNA course.But in that moment, she said she remembered her parents. "Having my mom as a nurse and having my stepdad as an EMP and a cop, I just grew up knowing just taking action is the best thing to do -- so I guess the adrenaline, having them as my parents, I just knew how to do it right then and there," Carwyle said.Buckner said when he told his mom, she also got a little teary-eyed."It's a day that I most definitely will not forget being here and I will live with it forever," Carwyle said.
You may not be able to hear it, but you can feel the gratitude in the room, as Carwyle gets hi-fives and cheers."Because she saved my life," he said."Don't eat big bites of corndogs," Buckner suggested.
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