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Six deaf children can hear for the first time after breakthrough
The children were part of two experimental groups in China and the US, who were all born with a gene mutation that blocked production of a protein needed for hearing.
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February 1, 2024 at 6:05 p.m. EST
Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews was in the right place at the right time to help a woman experiencing a medical emergency on a Southwest Airlines flight Thursday.
About three hours into the early-morning flight from Baltimore to Phoenix, passenger Andrew Springs was awakened by a woman crawling over his lap to get to the empty space adjacent to the emergency exit door in front of his window seat. The woman was a nurse, and she was trying to help a fellow passenger who was having trouble breathing in the middle seat of the emergency exit row. A doctor was already tending to the woman from the aisle.
“It was scary,” Springs, 34, said in a phone interview. “I’m not easily shaken, but she couldn’t hold her head up, she couldn’t retain consciousness for very long. They could barely find a pulse, and her blood pressure was super low.”
During the frightening ordeal, a man seated on the aisle two seats to Springs’s right asked the doctor and nurse if they thought the woman might have low blood sugar. Springs had fallen asleep shortly after boarding, so he hadn’t noticed the tall man in the black tracksuit. But he recognized him almost immediately as the man reached into his bag for a blood sugar test kit.
“If you’re obsessed with the Ravens like I am, you know exactly what Mark Andrews looks like, in profile, with his helmet off,” said Springs, who was born and raised in Baltimore and now lives in Andrews’s hometown of Scottsdale, Ariz.
Springs said Andrews, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 9 and is an advocate for others living with the disease, showed the doctor and nurse how to administer the test while they kept the woman alert. Afterward, they helped the woman drink some orange juice, which seemed to stabilize her. The remainder of the flight was tense, Springs said, as the doctor and nurse remained beside the woman.
Mark Andrews deflects praise after helping woman during in-flight emergenc
By Scott AllenFebruary 1, 2024 at 6:05 p.m. EST
Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews was in the right place at the right time to help a woman experiencing a medical emergency on a Southwest Airlines flight Thursday.
About three hours into the early-morning flight from Baltimore to Phoenix, passenger Andrew Springs was awakened by a woman crawling over his lap to get to the empty space adjacent to the emergency exit door in front of his window seat. The woman was a nurse, and she was trying to help a fellow passenger who was having trouble breathing in the middle seat of the emergency exit row. A doctor was already tending to the woman from the aisle.
“It was scary,” Springs, 34, said in a phone interview. “I’m not easily shaken, but she couldn’t hold her head up, she couldn’t retain consciousness for very long. They could barely find a pulse, and her blood pressure was super low.”
During the frightening ordeal, a man seated on the aisle two seats to Springs’s right asked the doctor and nurse if they thought the woman might have low blood sugar. Springs had fallen asleep shortly after boarding, so he hadn’t noticed the tall man in the black tracksuit. But he recognized him almost immediately as the man reached into his bag for a blood sugar test kit.
“If you’re obsessed with the Ravens like I am, you know exactly what Mark Andrews looks like, in profile, with his helmet off,” said Springs, who was born and raised in Baltimore and now lives in Andrews’s hometown of Scottsdale, Ariz.
Springs said Andrews, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 9 and is an advocate for others living with the disease, showed the doctor and nurse how to administer the test while they kept the woman alert. Afterward, they helped the woman drink some orange juice, which seemed to stabilize her. The remainder of the flight was tense, Springs said, as the doctor and nurse remained beside the woman.
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She was great in Super Troopers too
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