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CPR instructions over phone save life of babyContinued from page 16:30 p.m. She put Caroline into an inflatable life ring that, attached to the edge of the tub, was supposed to keep her upright and her head out of the water.Dana stepped out of the bathroom to call a friend and cancel their plans for an evening walk. As they talked, “I got a real strong feeling to check on them,” she said last week.She put down the phone and looked into the bathtub, where Caroline was floating on her back, not breathing. “She was blue, about the color of her jeans,” Dana said, giving the wiggling girl, now 2, a squeeze.Dana Treganowan said she doesn’t remember many of the details of what happened next.Wyatt does, but wishes she could forget the terror in Treg-anowan’s voice and her own “gut-wrenching” emotions.She remembers thinking, “What if it were my child?” said Wyatt, a mother of sue. “It’s something that you don’t forget, but try hard not to remember.”Treganowan brought baby Caroline over to the phone, and following Wyatt’s instructions, she began CPR. She is a nurse, so she knew what she was doing, but the panic she felt was overwhelming, Treganowan said.“I was scared to death. I kept thinking how I could ever live with myself and how is (husband) Doug going to forgive me,” she said.Wyatt’s steadiness on the other end of the phone was, literally, a lifesaver, Treganowan said. “Shewas perfect.”While trying to be perfect for Treganowan, Wyatt also was trying to direct a flock of emergency workers to the right house. That was the hardest part, she said.Walla Walla Fire Department paramedic Chuck Hawman and his partner Dan Hartzheim were on the way. So were Brian and Holly Jones, emergency medical technicians from Fire District 4, and Sgt. Romine, who had been chatting with Wyatt and Dixon in the dispatch center when the call came in.The ambulances arrived in less than 3Vi minutes. Treganowan calls it the “longest time of mylife.”Wyatt said she was drained after Treganowan hung up. There was another ambulance call, then a quiet period where she had time to reflect.“It was the scariest thing, the desperation in her voice when she called, and wondering if she was going to make it,” Wyatt said.“Most times when you get a call like that, the outcome isn’t a good one,” she said. “I was just desperate to try. Kids are so precious. They have so much life ahead of them. I can’t imagine losing one of my own.”When Caroline finally began breathing on her own, Romine called the dispatch center and held the phone next to the crying baby.That’s when Wyatt broke into tears.“When Romine called, everything was OK,” she said. “I wanted to give him a hug. Then I wanted to come home and give my kids a hug.”
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Walla Walla Union Bulletin
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Mon, Nov 09, 1992
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