I'm assuming most of you got the AD's email on this.. but a very cool story. Another Eagle taking care of biz!
Eastern Washington University soccer player Ashley Valdivieso's (Scottsdale, Ariz. / Desert Mountain HS) inaugural trip to the Big Sky Conference Tournament was a memorable one. On Monday morning, Oct. 29, on a flight from Spokane to Denver, Valdivieso performed CPR on the man sitting next to her.
Valdivieso was asleep in the exit row when she was awoken by the wife of the man sitting across from her calling for help upon discovering that her husband was pale and did not have a pulse.
"We laid him down in the aisle and put him on his back. Someone asked if anyone knew CPR, and I do, so I got down next to him and applied two compressions before he took a breath and came back to life," said Valdivieso. "Two doctors on the plane were able to take it from there and he was okay to stand up after a while."
Valdivieso has been CPR certified for about five years due to being a nanny in high school and has only had to use it once before, but never on an adult. The freshman credits being in the right place at the right time.
"It was scary, but I was confident that I knew what to do," said Valdivieso. "Nobody else was stepping up, and I knew that I could do it and I'm glad he is okay."
Eastern Washington University soccer player Ashley Valdivieso's (Scottsdale, Ariz. / Desert Mountain HS) inaugural trip to the Big Sky Conference Tournament was a memorable one. On Monday morning, Oct. 29, on a flight from Spokane to Denver, Valdivieso performed CPR on the man sitting next to her.
Valdivieso was asleep in the exit row when she was awoken by the wife of the man sitting across from her calling for help upon discovering that her husband was pale and did not have a pulse.
"We laid him down in the aisle and put him on his back. Someone asked if anyone knew CPR, and I do, so I got down next to him and applied two compressions before he took a breath and came back to life," said Valdivieso. "Two doctors on the plane were able to take it from there and he was okay to stand up after a while."
Valdivieso has been CPR certified for about five years due to being a nanny in high school and has only had to use it once before, but never on an adult. The freshman credits being in the right place at the right time.
"It was scary, but I was confident that I knew what to do," said Valdivieso. "Nobody else was stepping up, and I knew that I could do it and I'm glad he is okay."
