Jack's Story

Jack was at a wedding in West Deal shul. He was sitting at a table eating dinner. He looked across the room and saw a man patting his friend on the back. He went back to eat dinner, but when he looked up again, he noticed the same scene continuing: a man patting his friend on the back. Jack quickly realized this wasn’t a friendly gesture: his friend was choking, and no one around him knew what to do.

He ran over and said, “do you need help? I know what to do!”  He got around the friend, who had been choking for 30 seconds now, and began to give him the Heimlich Maneuver. Within 5 seconds, a huge piece of steak came flying out, and he was able to breathe again. Jack saved his friend’s life using the Heimlich Maneuver, in the same place he learned how to use it in the first place: West Deal Shul, one year earlier, with Blink.