An 87-year-old woman named Patty Gill Ris was eating a hamburger at a senior center in Cincinnati recently, when she started choking.
But the guy next to her knew what to do . . . because he was DR. HENRY HEIMLICH, the guy who INVENTED the Heimlich maneuver back in 1974. He’s 96 years old now.
And when he realized Patty was choking, he immediately stood her up . . . did the Heimlich . . . and it WORKED. She coughed up the piece of hamburger, and it saved her life.
And here’s the coolest part. Henry says he’d never actually used the Heimlich maneuver in an EMERGENCY before.
He’s obviously demonstrated it a lot over the past 40 years, but this was the first time he’s personally used it to save someone’s life.
One of the staff members at the senior center says HE’S used it twice already this year. And he was about to jump in and help . . . but Henry beat him to it, and he obviously knew what he was doing.
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