Blue Jays manager John Schneider’s heroic act saves woman’s life in restaurant

Not every day do fans come across heroic instances of sports personalities saving the lives of people. The Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider has recently gained the love and appreciation from people for saving a woman’s life. The woman in concern was choking in a restaurant, and the Blue Jays manager came to rescue and performed the life-saving Heimlich maneuver he had learned in school.

The Blue Jays’ social media account has proudly posted about this incident on their Twitter handle, earning appreciation and love from several baseball fans. The manager was out for lunch with his wife at the restaurant when he witnessed a woman choking on her food.

Sharing about the incident, Schneider raises the importance of learning basic first aid maneuvers. On performing a successful Heimlich maneuver, he says, I learned it in about sixth grade and hadn’t thought about it since. So it was like: ‘I think I remember how to do this?’ I’m a bigger guy, so I think that helped a little bit. But no, I hadn’t thought about the Heimlich maneuver since grade six.”

Well, Schneider’s middle school life skills did come in handy for a situation that would otherwise have turned south. The internet is all praise about the MLB manager, hailing him as a hero.

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Blue Jays manager John Schneider becomes a life savior at a restaurant

The Blue Jays manager saved a choking woman’s life at a restaurant using the Heimlich maneuver. With this technique, abdominal thrusts lift the diaphragm of the person choking to expel air out of their lungs. This causes any foreign object to be forced out, which might be the reason behind choking.

Schneider’s wife describes her husband’s heroic feat: “The way he held his cool, you would have thought he was managing a wild-card game. It was so graceful.” Schneider, however, admitted that the incident had left him a ‘little more than rattled.’

In the conversation following this incident, Schneider describes, “She said, ‘Thank you,’ and carried on with her meal with her friends. We kind of just said: ‘See you later.’ Again, I wasn’t looking for a big compliment. I think I was a little bit more rattled than she was.”

The restaurant rewarded Schneider with a free beer on the house for his life-saving action. Perhaps, this helped him calm his nerves as he was shocked to see someone facing such an incident in front of him. Choking is the fourth leading cause of unintentional death, and perhaps this had left Schneider a bit shaken to the least.

This incident raises an important issue of how learning basic first aid and first respondence methods are essential life skills that might someday be useful in situations such as this.

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