TAMPA, Fla., March 5 (UPI) -- Beverly Young, wife of U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., says she was able to revive a fellow passenger on a flight from Tampa, Fla., to Washington.
Beverly Young said shortly after her US Airways flight left Tampa Wednesday, she learned an 81-year old woman had collapsed and was unconscious, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times said.
Young said she immediately drew upon her training as a former medic and firefighter to use cardiopulmonary resuscitation to revive the woman, who apparently passed out after a bout of reported nausea.
"She passed out right away. Her lips were turning blue," Young, 53, said. "I just blew once, compressed once and that made her cough."
Young then entertained the unidentified woman, who had been on her way to Pittsburgh for her husband's funeral, during the flight in order to keep her conscious, the newspaper said.
The representative's wife later downplayed her actions, which included helping the woman and her teenage granddaughter find a hotel in which to stay.
"It was just simple," Young told the Times. "It wasn't as heroic as it sounds. It just stays with you. It's a natural instinct."
