Just days after learning CPR, a Girl Scout girl used CPR to save her father's life.
Just 11 days after 11-year-old Vada Carawan practiced CPR on a dummy for the first time during Girl Scout training, her father, Clint Carawan, died of a heart attack on the floor of their Virginia home. When I saw this happening, I took action. WAVY reported.
“Of course I was scared,” Vada recalled, adding that in her initial panic, she forgot new life-saving techniques. “Then I started crying and thought, 'What am I going to do?'” For a split second, I was in complete shock. And I said, “Heart attack…heart attack, 911,” she told the media about last month's scare.
“My dog Maggie was freaking out,” Vada said. “She was trying to wake him up. She put her foot there and it was like she was trying to wake him up.”
Once Vada realized the seriousness of the situation, she began chest compressions while on the phone with paramedics, who helped revive her father.
“It's hard to describe in words because it was so scary,” Vada told the magazine. “I think it was a little weaker because it's different than doing it with a dummy and not a dad,” she said, comparing the situation to her previous training with the Girl Scouts of Virginia Beach.
“In fact, I was the only one in the entire class who successfully rescued the dummy.When you perform CPR, the dummy has a light on it, and if it's green, you know you're doing it correctly. “,” Vada told the program.
“I just try my best to do what I want to do,” Vada explained. “I never think you're too young to do anything,” she said.
Vada is now being praised by first responders and her mother for saving her father's life.
“She had to be his hero,” Vada's mother, Amanda Carawan, told the magazine.
