Morgan Hill
– Thanks to quick thinking and a little training from his older
sister, 12-year-old Robin Simmons saved his younger sister’s life
by performing the Heimlich maneuver.
Morgan Hill – Thanks to quick thinking and a little training from his older sister, 12-year-old Robin Simmons saved his younger sister’s life by performing the Heimlich maneuver.
Simmons, who will be an eighth-grader at Britton Middle School, was dining at a Morgan Hill restaurant, in June when his 10-year-old sister, Kay-Lee, who attends Paradise Valley Elementary School, started choking on a piece of meat.
Simmons jumped up and performed the maneuver.
“We were going through our meal and I heard my little sister coughing,” Simmons said. “I could hear gurgling noises. I got her out of her chair and performed the Heimlich maneuver.”
Simmons’s mom, Nicole, said her son stayed calm and did exactly what he needed to do.
“The first piece came out right away,” she said. “Then he just kept at it and got the final piece out. Robin surprised us.”
Simmons learned the maneuver from his older sister, Jennifer, who was taking a first-aid class from the United Academy of Martial Arts.
When asked if he was scared, Simmons said he was more focused on what he had to do.
“I was sort of scared that something was going to happen,” Simmons said. “(When it was all over,) I was sort of relieved. No one wants their litter sister to choke to death.”
