A Shopper stanched the bleeding of wounded aide Ron Barber

[RamboLiberal]

TUCSON - Anna Ballis went to the Safeway a few blocks from her house on Saturday to buy beef broth for a roast she intended to put in her slow cooker.

She made it home about eight hours later, disheveled and bloodstained, having sat in a pool of a stranger's blood while applying pressure to a wound high on his leg.

Nearing the store, Ballis had seen U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords standing outside and thought she would say hello. But she stepped out of line because it was too long. Then, a man intervened, suggesting that she stop by when she finished grocery shopping.


That stranger was Ron Barber, Giffords' district director.

Seconds later, a gunman opened fire. Barber was shot twice, once in the cheek and once in his leg, and fell. The bullet to the leg had hit an artery. Ballis' simple act of applying pressure with her hands to the wound near his groin may shorten Barber's recovery time.



Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/12/20110112giffords-shooting-anna-ballis.html#ixzz1AtKordFF

[aquart]

1. Learning first aid really does matter.

[gateley]

3. I was thinking that when I heard her aide say he applied what 'limited training' he

had (or something like that) and I thought boy, I wouldn't know where to start and what to do. So you're right. It really does matter - he saved her life.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. The American Red Cross offers an eight hour

First Aid course.

http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.86f46a12f382290517a8f210b80f78a0/?vgnextoid=aea70c45f663b110VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD

[gateley]

6. Thanks, nad! This is really something I WILL do!

Then we can talk shop! :7 :hi:

[gateley]

2. Some very good people there that day at Safeway. And it speaks volumes about

how highly regarded Giffords is when a constituent feels comfortable enough to just want to say hello.

[aquart]

4. True. Republicans and Democrats.

[Warpy]

7. Shorten recovery time? She probably saved his life

You can bleed out from a femoral nick in minutes.