Dr. Henry Heimlich, Who Invented Heimlich Maneuver, Uses Heimlich Maneuver To Save Friend

Dr. Henry Heimlich, who invented the Heimlich maneuver
to rescue people who are choking, finally got the chance to
try it himself at age 96. He saved the life of an 87 year old woman.  

Dr. Henry Heimlich saved countless lives, no doubt about it.

You recognize his last name.

He invented the Heimlich maneuver, where you basically grab a choking person from behind and compress their abdomen to make them cough up whatever is choking them, thereby saving the choking person's life. 

Dr. Heimlich is now 96 years old and lives in a Cincinnati, Ohio assisted living facility, but he's still doing pretty well.  

Recently, in the dining room, an 87-year-old woman at a dinner table at the facility started choking on a piece of hamburger that got stuck in her throat.

Heimlich rushed over, performed the manuever that made him famous, and the hamburger dislodged from the woman's throat.

She's just fine now, thank you.

Who knows how many thousands of lives Heimlich saved when he invented and broadcast his method. But it was the first time he had the chance to try it himself.

I'm so glad he did -- successfully - before he died so now he understands how gratifying it must be to save another person's life, up close and personal.

"That moment was very important to me. I knew about all the lives my maneuver has saved over the years and I have demonstrated it so many times, but here, for the first time, was someone sitting right next to me who was about to die," Heimlich told The Guardian newspaper. 

The woman, Patty Ris, wrote Heimlich a note, saying, "God put me in this seat next to you," reported the Cincinnati Enquirer. 

Heimlich and Ris shared a celebratory dinner together the next night. No choking was involved.

Heimlich is still fit for his age, swimming three or four times a week at the center's swimming pool and making frequent excursions out to see the symphony and other cultural events.

Still, let's face it. He's 96 years old. Not some 20 year old athletic stud. Which proves that anybody can learn and use the Heimlich maneuver.  

Awesome Photographs Of Adopted Pets and Their Companions

Over at Buzzfeed, photographer Theron Humphrey's project in which he visited all 50 states and talked to people who had adopted and rescued pets, mostly dogs, and took pictures of the happy pairings.

On of Theron Humphrey's pet adoption photos.  

Scroll down the Buzzfeed page and look at a few of those photos, all of them are beautiful and will put you in a good mood.

Another fun thing to do is go to Humphrey's site, called Why We Rescue, where you can listen to the people who adopted the pets, what motivated them to do so, and how the move benefitted both them and the dogs.

Once there, click on any of the pictures, and you get a series of photographs that offer clues to the kind of life the people lead, the kind of life the pet leads, and how everything works. All beautiful photographs.

While you're looking at the photos, you hear an interview where the person who adopted the pet tells a little bit about themselves and their family and their pet.

 Another one!

I love the window into all these regular lives we get, and how these "normal" lives improved with the rescued pet.

 I haven't had a chance to listen to them all, but the ones I did hear are really awesome.

Check it all out!

I can' resist one more.