Fast food worker takes a break to heroically save a man's life with CPR
A Wendy’s worker has shared the pep talk she gave herself before saving the life of a man who collapsed in the parking lot.
“Girl, you know how to do CPR, get over here and do these chest compressions,” Alexandria Cowheard told herself when she saw a man collapse outside her place of work. Ms Cowheard was working on the Wendy’s franchise on Richmond Road in Lexington, Kentucky, when she was forced to go above and beyond her call of duty.
The fast-food worker was on shift on October 26 when at 2:23pm, she had to step away from frying burgers for the simple matter of saving a man’s life. It was a co-worker who alerted her to the emergency, before the quick-thinking lifesaver dialled 911 and headed straight over to the man’s unconscious body.
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The man suffered cardiac arrest in the car park of Lexington's Wendy's franchise (WKYT)“I didn’t panic visibly, but in the back of my mind, I was like, what do I do,” Cowheard recalled of the dramatic moment. “I kind of short-circuited a little bit before I was like, ‘Girl, you know how to do CPR; get over here and do these chest compressions.’”
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Just 22 years old, Alexandria had learnt how to perform CPR while she was at high school - and certainly wasn’t in vain. She began chest compressions on the collapsed man, but it didn’t take long until she had saved his life.
After a short period of chest compressions the man “did that snoring thing again”, Ms Cowheard said. He gasped for air within just a few minutes - although Ms Cowheard, in her adrenaline-fuelled state, says it felt like a much longer time than that. “In my mind, it was taking a really long time for people to get there,” Ms Cowheard recalled.
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Ms Cowheard went straight back to frying burgers and serving customers after saving a life (WKYT)Emergency services arrived and took the man to hospital and the entire ordeal - from the moment Ms Cowheard’s co-worker pointed out the man in distress until he was taken away in an ambulance - lasted just 15 minutes in total. The young woman is currently attending Bluegrass Community and Technical College and studying to become a nursing assistant, which explains her quick-thinking and life-saving technique. She works at Wendy’s on the side in order to make some extra cash, WKYT reported.
She will certainly have no trouble going into a medical profession with her sharp medical mind - and hopes one day in the future to be working in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) after she finishes her time studying at the college. But the hard-worker wasn’t dreaming of the future after the ordeal - she got her head down and went straight back to serving customers at Wendy’s.
Only 65 percent of Americans say they have received CPR training at some point throughout their lives, with an even more concerning 18 percent up to date on training, according to Harvard Health Publishing. It is a similar story in the UK, where the Resuscitation Council UK say 38 percent of the population have never received any training in CPR.
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