I met Dr. Meir Wikler at a shabbaton and he shared the following personal story with me
MYfriend Dr. Meir Wikler received a call one day from a woman in Manchester, England, who wanted to relate an anecdote that happened as a result of reading one of his stories. Needless to say he was intrigued.
The woman said she had read a story in Dr. Wikler’s book Zorei’a Tzedakos (2003, Feldheim) about a group of 11-year-old girls in summer camp who sat in on a CPR course on a rainy day.
The nurse giving the course happened to be teaching that day on the topic of how to save a baby from choking. She demonstrated all the techniques to use when a baby was choking: Sit down and position the baby face down on your forearm, which should be resting on your thigh; support his head in your hand, angling his body so his head is lower than his bottom; and give a series of five hard smacks between his shoulder blades with the heel of your other hand. The girls listened in rapt attention the whole time.
Later that year, two of those girls ended up using the techniques they learned that day.
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