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A similar thing happened to me a year or two ago. I was at a small fried fish kind of place getting lunch. A old guy suddenly falls out of his chair onto the floor and starts foaming at the mouth. Me and another guy from another table get up to check on him. Everyone else just sat there looking and eating. Well, except for his wife that was muttering "Oh Jesus, oh jesus.", over and over again. I made eye contact with someone sitting down and they said they were calling 911. That was good. The other guy that came over to help wanted to immediately start doing CPR. I was like "Hold on, hes breathing and has a pulse." It was like he just got out of CPR class and wanted to try it out. But at least he jumped into action. Turns out the old guy was having a seizure.
But the whole incident shook me for a few days. The reaction of everyone basically doing nothing, the old guy on the floor looking like hes got some serious issue going on, my own reaction, the other guys mis-diagnosis, the wife freaking out (she was pretty loud and dramatic). It was not something we normally see everyday.
Does not apply in this story, but in CPR class, the instructor said "If a person has no pulse and no breathing, you cant hurt them. They're dead. So at least try to do CPR". Made sense to me.
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