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While most of the friends of Renton WA Myspace are sporting Myspace headlines like “Totally had fun on Saturday”, or “Feeling like it’s time to take the Christmas lights down” there is one that is a bit different.
Kim Blake’s headline reads “Gave someone CPR today…. And shocked their heart.”
Kim Blake did indeed have the judgment and training to administer CPR and apply a new defibrillator to a heart attack victim at the McLendon’s Hardware Store, and she saved the victim’s life. Yep. McLendon’s employees will now be known for giving you great advice AND saving your life when necessary.
Council gets to thank Kim in person at our next council meeting (January 26th) because the Renton Fire Department has talked her into coming for a visit.
Renton Reporter’s Emily Garland provides further details about Kim’s quick thinking and fast action HERE , along with the important actions of others (like fellow-employee Sharina Brock) in this story with such a happy ending. The greatest act a person can perform is to save another’s life.
What an awesome story and some really sweet people who kept their heads! The person who donated the device should get a lot of thanks as well.
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You can buy home versions that work quite well for a bit less than the $10,000 paid for the version that McClendon’s had.
http://www.overstock.com/Health-Beauty/Philips-HeartStart-OnSite-Defibrillator-AED/1722420/product.html?cid=123620&fp=F&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=10089292
They’re not expensive.
Thank you for the post, Randy!
To answer the previous comment, our machine cost only $1500, from CardiacScience. Very inexpensive for what it can do, and very, very, very simple to use.
*Steps onto soapbox*
My new agenda is to convince businesses that they can afford these machines, and they’re a good investment.
*Gets off of soapbox*
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Thanks Kim! You will be the PERFECT spokesperson! 🙂
McLendon’s
I love McLendon’s. It is seriously my favorite place to shop and everyone that works there is always so friendly and helpful. Good job, Kim!!!
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Amen to that. Even if I can find something a little cheaper at Lowe’s or somewhere else, I really like McLendon’s. Plus, I think I have a few cousin’s working there…. 🙂
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Always buy from McLendon Hardware. They are great civic sponsors. And they save lives!! Can’t beat that, can you?
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Amen.
Happy MLK Day!
It’s really heartening to see MLK’s message of struggle, perseverance, dignity and freedom is overtaking the sad message of greed, victimhood, pandering and despondency.
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Because of the fog of history, we have forgotten that the ‘founding fathers’ were flawed characters; Carrying that forward, let us listen to the ideas of MLK and not get lost in the politics and actions of the man himself.
Some of his writings belong right next to the federalists papers
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On of my favorite quotes, it reminds us that a open enemy is better than a fair-weather friend:
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”