"As she came to, she says, “I felt a man stroking my hair and kissing my forehead saying ‘It’s okay, sweetheart,’ and realized it wasn’t my husband. When I opened my eyes and looked back to him I just thought ‘Nahh can’t be.’”
“Matthew’s a hero … He gave her mouth-to-mouth,” actress Amy Irving confirmed to the paper. "
What am I missing here? Mouth to mouth for fainting? Did she not have a pulse? Stroking her hair and kissing her forehead? What the heck?
If this was not a movie star, I wonder what her reaction would have been.
Am I the only one that finds this very odd? I cannot imagine offering first aid to a man I don’t know and kissing his forehead and stroking his hair. Even to someone I DID know!
I dunno. It’s one of those things where context makes all the difference.
Maybe he’s freshly trained in first aid, and his adrenaline was so pumped, he couldn’t make out her breathing. Red Cross does say the first thing you do after listening is give two quick rescue breaths. And maybe he figured talking to her would bring her around.
Or maybe he’s just a big fruitloop with no understanding of personal boundaries, and he wants to look like a great big hero.
Well, mouth-to-mouth by an over-enthusiastic newly-trained or inexperienced first responder I can understand.
But kissing on the forehead? “Sweetheart?” Please.
Mrbodypoet is a paramedic and I don’t know of him EVER kissing a fainter on the forehead. Even when I fainted, I didn’t get any forehead kisses.
He is strongly fascinated by my veins though. When you live with a paramedic, you get compliments like, “Man, those are some great veins you have there. I could put a 14 IV in that vein like that!” Go figure.
Considering even that it’s Matthew McConaughy, I think if I fainted I’d rather be face to face with an earnest look when I came to, rather than a complete stranger kissing my forehead and calling me sweetheart.
That’s true, one of the first things you do in CPR is you checking to see if the victim is breathing and you give two rescue breaths if they need it before you even check for a pulse. A person’s heart can still be beating, but they may not be breathing. But, of course, in a few minutes without air, they will lose the pulse too.
It doesn’t creep me out about the kissing the forehead and sweetheart stuff. Some people automatically get in the caregiver role during crisis. It seemed like a fatherly/motherly/(or i want good publicity) thing to do.
My WAG is that the victim was in a sort-of altered state of consciousness, being in such extreme stress, having passed out, etc. Then she felt lips on her mouth, and in her altered state of consciousness imagined she was back home in her bed with her husband kissing her, stroking her, yada yada yada.
Then she comes to and realizes that she’s being given mouth-to-mouth, etc.
rasta, you could be right about that. The few times I blacked out (from blood sugar problems, and once when I was post op from back surgery) when I came to things were VERY weird- I had little sense of where I was or what was going on.
sidenote:
karol, you crack me up. When my husband was in a motorcycle accident, the paramedics put a HUGE needle in him to get his fluids in quick. They just about high fived all the way to the hospital, and the ER nurse even complimented them on the guage of the needle they used. My husband was like “Hello! This really hurts!”
S I read the story, the woman was unaware if mouth-to-mouth had happened, a witness said it had.
As my $0.02, I have to say that the one time I had to give CPR and mouth-to-mouth I too called the victim “sweetheart”, “honey” and told her we all loved her.
I think it may be something that just happens when you are in that situation.