The attitude that teenagers are “kids” is long gone. They are now more self-reliant and developed than they were before. This is why we hear stories of teenagers performing amazing acts of generosity all the time. One such story involves Kansas high schooler Tyra Winters, a girl who cheers for her team by dancing in the nude on their home court during games.
In Texas, Rockwall High School senior Winters is a cheerleader and a student. She has since become a ‘hometown hero’ as a result of her actions.
On September 18th, 2016, the peaceful celebration of homecoming at Rockwall Highschool was held. Tyra was on the float with her cheerleading squad and the football team. She heard a woman screaming for help during the march. In the crowd’s commotion, it didn’t take long for everyone to realize a youngster was in distress.
Nicole Hornback’s child, Clarke, was choking. She claimed that she was simply sitting next to Clarke when the tragedy occurred.She said, “I just happened to look over to him and there was no noise, there was no coughing, there was no breathing. And at that moment that’s when I tried to give him the Heimlich, and I’ve never taken a class. To feel so useless as a mother was the most terrifying thing in my life. ” During her interview with ABC News, she said, “I just literally was holding him out and just running through the crowd trying to hand him off to anyone”
Tyra glanced around the crowd. She noticed a toddler with a red face in the midst of all that madness. It was rapidly deepening into an angry purple! She stated, “I see the kid. I see a little bright red face and his mom’s holding him up, begging for help, screaming, asking ‘someone help me someone help me,’”
Her first instinct, according to a CNN affiliate interview, was to assist the youngster. Tyra climbed off the float and ran through the crowd without hesitation. She took hold of the youngster from his screaming mother.Tyra continued, “Her kid’s turning purple, so I immediately jumped off the float and I ran down to the kiddo and I said ‘I got him.’”
Tyra assisted the kid and administered three powerful back thrusts, causing him to regurgitate the sweets he was choking on!
Fortunately, Tyra’s mother is a physician, so she was given CPR training when she was in eighth grade. She will be a pediatric surgeon soon, in fact.
To thank Tyra, Clarke and his mother went to her school to personally express their gratitude. The grateful mother remarked, “I commend her for being a teenager and being trained. She saved my baby.”
Children, especially those aged 1 to 5, are at risk of choking because they put objects in their mouths. Small items, on the other hand, might get trapped in their airway and cause asphyxiation. What should you do if this occurs?
If you still see it, try to remove it but not blindly. Encourage the youngster to keep on coughing if they are screaming loudly. If this isn’t working and the child is silent or unable to breathe normally, shout for help. If the kid is conscious and not coughing, give him/her a couple of back lashes.
Back smacking is a technique used to expell bad air from the body. Laying the kid face down on your legs or supporting him in a forward-leaning posture and giving 5 back blows from behind will do the trick. If this alone doesn’t work, administer abdominal thrusts to induce an artificial cough.
Nicole and her family will be given CPR, as well as first-aid instruction, following the attack.
