Positivity: Grandma Says Granddaughter Saved Her Life
Last Update: 10/12 8:55 pm
A Middletown teenager is getting credit for saving her grandmother’s life. Pauline Back was eating a Fruit Roll-Up when it got stuck in her throat.
She says it’s a good thing her granddaughter knew exactly what to do.“Thank God for her, saved my life,” said Back. “I was chewing it, went into my daughter’s bedroom. The girls were in there on the computer playing games,” said Back. “All of a sudden the Fruit Roll-Up got lodged in my throat. I couldn’t breathe and I kept coughing and coughing. I couldn’t get it up. It wouldn’t budge. She got behind me and did the Heimlich Maneuver and second time it came up,” said Back.
Her granddaughter Jessica Frongia said, “I was scared. I thought she was going to like drop on the floor or something and I would have to call my mom and tell her everything and have an ambulance and everything but it didn’t happen.”
Jessica is an 8th grader at Middletown’s Verity Middle School. She says she learned how to do the Heimlich Maneuver five years ago as a Girl Scout.
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