A Maine teenager saves his mom after a life-threatening injury with skills he picked up watching “Grey’s Anatomy.” Kristen Iarrobino was leaving her home in Glenburn one morning last week when she slipped and fell on the ice. She was carrying her coffee cup, which broke and sliced her wrist during the fall. She knew right away that the injury was severe and called for her 16-year-old son, Cyrus Iarrobino. "When I looked down at my hand, I immediately told him to call 911," Kristen recalls.
Cyrus quickly jumped in to help his mom, calling 911 and holding a sweatshirt against her wound to slow the bleeding. Knowing it was going to take some time for an ambulance to arrive, the 911 dispatcher told Cyrus to form a makeshift tourniquet. Cyrus first tried to use some string, but it broke. The teen then had the idea to use his shoelaces. "I'm there on my knees looking for anything to use and I rip off the laces on my new shoes," he explains. "I didn't take a second to untie them or anything."
The ambulance arrived a short while later and rushed Kristen to the hospital. She says the tourniquet was on her arm for a total of 40 minutes between their homemade one and the one put on her in the ambulance. She underwent two surgeries totalling seven hours to repair the extensive damage to her wrist, but now she’s on the road to recovery and grateful to be alive. She’s grateful for the ambulance and hospital staff, but especially thankful for her quick-thinking son’s help.
Source:CNN
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