What would you do if your were in this dilemma? I think most of us would want to help, but would we be afraid of doing something wrong and wait until experienced help arrived. In this case it would have been too late and a life would have been lost. Sometimes I think we are so afraid of doing something wrong that we hesitate to help at all. Maybe we shouldn’t hesitate but go ahead and do the best we know how. We might save a life as Jennifer Robbins did.
What Would You Do?
What would you do if you were driving your children to school and saw a man lying in the street with his face in a pool of blood? Would you call 911 and keep driving or would you stop and help.
This is what Jennifer Robbins did. She quickly stopped her car and told her 8 and 5 year old to stay in the car, then grabbed a roll of paper towels and went to the mans aid. The man had no pulse and was turning blue. With the help of a bystander who had already called 911, Robbins turned the man over, cleaned his face with paper towels and used the roll as a cushion for his head. Robbins then began CPR which she had learned as a girl scout but had never used.
The injured man was Bob Wright, 73, who had left his home earlier to run his usual five miles. Robbins heard a gurgling sound as she was turning him over and didn’t know if she was helping him or causing more injury but she knew it was up to her to do something.
Robbins continued to do CPR until the ambulance came onto the scene. When they lifted him into the ambulance Wright’s blue face was already turning pink. And Robbins didn’t stop there. A teacher from her children’s school was passing by and Robbins asked her to take the children to school while she followed the ambulance to the hospital.
Wright was not able to communicate and had no identity on him. He was admitted as John Doe. Robbins went back to where Wright had fallen and started knocking on doors. By describing Wright from door to door, she found his house and his wife, Phyllis. Robbins told Phyllis to get any important papers and telephone numbers and drove her to the hospital.
Wright was still in a coma as Robbins helped Phyllis call family members. Later Wright would learn he not only had head injuries but a quadruple by pass. Robbins called or visited every day of the three weeks Wright was in the hospital.
She remembered later that she had left early on that morning to school. If she had left at the usual time she would have been too late to save Wright’s life. Wright said, “She’s my angel, her instincts and what she did that day is the reason I’m here today.”
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