Better to be safe than sorry

Would you know what to do if your child started choking?

The answer for me a year ago was ‘no’ and it scared me to think that if my son started to choke, I wouldn’t know how to save him.  I kept picturing just the two of us, at home eating dinner when a piece of pizza or steak got lodged in his throat.  I would probably panic and call 911, but by the time they would come, it could be too late.

Wanting to be prepared for the worst prompted me to take CPR and first aid training from the Red Cross last February.  It’s a full-day class, where you are trained by a professional on how to do CPR and first aid on infants, children and adults.

At the end of the class, you’ll know what to do for not only for choking, but also burns, gashes, broken bones and other major injuries.