BACK TO SCHOOL::Time flies so fast. They just came for holidays, now they have all gone back to school.
As for me and my lovely wife @Akeda3, we are temporarily back to how we lived before having kids, which will soon be our permanent settings.
When we see Boda riders loaded with an entire living room set of furniture, speeding through traffic and jumping red lights, weโre quick to judge them and label them, reckless.
Last weekend, we stepped out for a Boda Boda Road Safety Walk in Kampala. We walked the hills, observed and had honest conversations with the riders about safety.
Yesterday, I met the Police Director of Traffic and Road Safety. I shared our observations from the walk, and he generously shared his rich insights and the Traffic @PoliceUg plans to make our roads safer.
Hereโs my story from the walk: https://t.co/VGo7iAhBdL
#SafeRoadsSaveLives
My dad discovered voice notes last year and has fully replaced phone calls with them, He just sends long, unedited, stream of consciousness voice notes sent at random hours. I receive them like dispatches from another world.
Voice note received 6:47am
Dad: (sound of kettle in background)
Good morning. I was thinking about you. I saw something on the television last night about young people and stress and I wanted to check on you. Are you eating. I hope you're eating. Your mother made stew yesterday it was very good. I told her to send you some but she said you live far. I said that's what couriers are for. She said I don't know how to use the courier app. I told her I would do it. I haven't done it yet but I will. Anyway. Call me when you wake up. Or send a voice note. Your mother says you never call. I told her you're busy. Are you busy? Don't be too busy. Okay. Have a good day. Eat something. Bye. (paus It's dad by the way.
Me: (listens to entire two minute voice note)
Me: (it is 6:47am)
Me: (sends voice note back)
Me: Dad I know it's you. You're the only one who sends voice notes this long. I'm eating. Tell mum I'll call this weekend. Also you don't need to say bye and then keep talking and then say bye again.
Voice note received 6:51am
Dad: (laughing) Okay okay. Bye.
Me: (smiling at phone at 6:51am)
Me: (this is actually the best start to a morning)
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This man had 4 minutes to live. No one was in the room. He survived because he knew something 95% of the world doesnโt.
Choking kills over 365,000 people globally every year, according to the WHO.
95% of these choking episodes share one variable: the person was alone. Not because the obstruction was worse. Because no one was there to help, and the victim didnโt know how to help themselves.
Without oxygen, brain damage begins in as little as 4 to 6 minutes. Average ambulance response time globally? Eight minutes or more. In many countries, they donโt arrive at all. The math is unforgiving.
You either know what to do in the first 60 seconds, or you donโt survive long enough for help to arrive.
This man survived for one reason, heโs a medical worker. He knew the self-Heimlich exists. He knew to use the back of a chair to generate subdiaphragmatic thrust against his own epigastrium.
Thatโs not his instinct. Itโs training.
Now think about who doesnโt have that training. Elderly people eating alone. Toddlers. Anyone living by themselves who has never been shown that a chair, a countertop, or even your own fist can substitute for another personโs hands.
The Heimlich maneuver was invented in 1974. Fifty years later, most people on Earth still donโt know it exists, let alone that you can perform it on yourself.
112K+ people watched this video. Almost none of them would have thought of actually learning the technique. They watched a man almost die and just felt relieved.
Hereโs what the video should have taught you:
In case youโre alone and choking:
Step 1: Make a fist. Place the thumb side just below your rib cage, above your navel.
Step 2: Grasp it with your other hand. Thrust sharply inward and upward.
Step 3: If that doesnโt work, lean over any firm surface. A chair back. A countertop edge. A railing
Step 4: Drive your upper abdomen against it. Hard. Repeat until the airway clears.
Thatโs 15 seconds of knowledge. Donโt forget that. Save this post.