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Compassion, to me, is always help a fellow human who is in need. If you treat people
with respect, dignity, caring and compassion good things happen to you. And I’m a firm
believer in that.
I work for the environmental risk group for the office of the general counsel at Sutter
Health. I got off work one day and as I was making my way into Lincoln from Roseville,
on highway 65, I noticed a huge cloud of dust going across the freeway. A car had actually
rolled off of highway 65 into an open field.
The passenger’s side door was actually on the ground and the driver’s side door was
actually upright. There were two gentlemen that had pulled over and I thought they might
need some help, so I pulled over. They told me a lady was stuck in the car. At that time,
I got down and looked in there and there was a little old lady hanging from her seat belt
and it was actually choking her.
She couldn’t talk. She was pointing that she was choking. And I said, “We need to
get this lady out of the car.” So the construction worker and another guy that was standing there
picked me up and they dropped me into the broken window.
I was able to shimmy my way up to the front seat and lift her up—just enough room to
get around and unbuckle the seatbelt. I lowered her down and I heard her catching her wind
again, breathing. She said, “Thank you very much. I could not breath.”
We literally crawled out of the vehicle. About that time the fire truck and the paramedics
showed up and I went on my way.
It could very well be the Mr. Nilsson did save this lady’s life. You’ve got to act
very quickly to help get that person out of the vehicle. So, by Todd’s quick thinking,
he’s a hero—100%.
Just knowing that that little old lady is okay, that…I would have walked through fire
to do that. I know personally that I made a positive impact on somebody’s life that
day. And if I could do it all over again, I would stop in a heartbeat and help somebody
else out. No question about it.