Big brother to the rescue
Published: August 25, 2007
Juliana Galobardi, 3, laughed about it Thursday, but that was only after a happy outcome she watched Wednesday night at her family’s Independence Day party.
Her big brothers, Joshua and Jonah, performed a hilarious re-enactment of their dramatic Fourth of July.
The boys had been playing with some plastic beads they had found. Jonah made the decision to put a handful of beads in his mouth so he could spit them out at his cousin Nathan as though they were bullets (because he said, “Nathan started it”).
Jonah explained, “that choked in me so I couldn’t breathe.” When asked what the experience felt like, the 6-year-old grabbed his throat with both hands and gagged silently, sticking his tongue out before he gasped out, “no breathing!”
Thursday evening, the boy could barely talk about the harrowing experience without laughing or smiling, even while he described the event as “the scariest thing ever.”
At that point, his 10-year-old brother Joshua stepped in and gave his kid brother the Heimlich maneuver, though neither of them even knew what to call it at that point.
“He did the… the, um, hike mover? Or something like that?” Jonah laughed.
Elena Galobardi, a Registered Nurse, and the boys’ mother described the action Joshua had shown her to convey what he had done.
“You know, this movement here,” she said, pushing in on her own chest. “I didn’t know that he even knew that existed, so I’m very proud of him.”
Having helping hands seems to come naturally in the Galobardi home. Elena’s mother, cousin, niece, and her husband are all nurses, too.
Despite that background, Joshua admitted it was the television set in the room that taught him the life-saving skills.
“I just learned something from television,” he said, “from a show on the Disney channel… I was like, ‘wow, it worked!’ I never knew it worked!”
The boy smiled and added, “Yeah, I do feel like a hero.”
One thing that was no surprise to Elena was that Joshua went to help his little brother in the first place.
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