I was working in my office, next door was my son, sleeping in his room. It was around 1:15 pm when it all happened…
Earlier that morning my son, Ryder (he’s 2), woke up very sleepy, and very hot. We took his temperature. It was 101. Our doctor said not to bother calling unless it was 102 or higher. So we let him sleep, and put a cold compress on his forehead.
He tried to get up at around 11am, but he just didn’t have the energy and fell back to sleep.
So we put him in his crib around noon. I went back to my home office to work.
At 1:20 or so, I heard movement in his crib. A sound I’ve heard many times before as he begins to wake.
I walked to his door, opened it, and approached his crib with my loving smile; eager to see his smiling face…he’s always smiling when he wakes up…
But what I saw is burned into my memory banks forever…
His lips were blue, his eyes where glazed over, his mouth was bubbling slightly, and he looked like he was choking…arching his back uncontrollably. I grabbed him and turned him on his side thinking it might be vomit that he was choking on and hoping it would come out as I tapped his back. All this while I was on my way to the kitchen telephone.
I was terrified…almost out of body as I look back…
After trying to relieve his choking, I tried mouth to mouth. Nothing changed. I was panicking…
I laid him on the kitchen floor on his side, picked up the telephone to call 911, and the line was dead. I couldn’t get dial tone (my wife unplugged it earlier so that it wouldn’t wake him up). I threw it aside and then grabbed for my cell phone which as right next to the telephone and called 911, totally out of my mind with terror. They picked up and I was screaming our address into the phone.
My son was barely making a sound at this point. He stopped arching his back. I thought I was losing him.
His lips where still blue and his mouth was bubbling. Not a breath.
After a few minutes with the 911 operator I couldn’t take it anymore. I picked him up off the floor, and at the same time my wife came in through the back sliding door. She was on the phone outside speaking with one of our managers.
She said, ‘Oh My God’, and I yelled, ‘Get The Door’, and at that very moment as we approached the front door there was a knock. It was a Police Officer. He asked for my son, we went to our couch and laid him down.
At this moment it appeared as though there was color back in his lips, but his eyes where glazed over, and I noticed a little breath creeping through his nose and mouth.
Then, the Paramedics arrived.
They said his heart rate was in a normal range under the circumstances, his temperature was 101, and they said he probably had a Fibrol Seizure, and that although it looks terrible, but that he is probably going to be fine. But to be sure, they wanted to bring him to Emergency. I totally lost it, sobbing for several seconds.
I rode with him in the Ambulance (he loves Ambulances and Fire Trucks…) and my wife met us at the Hospital.
He slept on our chests as we took turn with him, my wife and I. A couple hours later he spoke a little bit, and he was coming along fine.
We eventually went home, and he was almost normal except for his scratchy voice. I couldn’t believe the change that occurred, but I was so amazingly happy he was OK. Nothing else mattered.
He ate a small dinner, even took a bath.
When he want to sleep I lost it again as I re-lived the experience…the look on his face…
My wife re-assured me that he was going to be fine. And he is. Thank God.
Thanks for listening.
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by admin and filed under Uncategorized | 17 Comments »
What is a lead? A lead is a person (or a person representing a business) who has express interest in a product or service, and has taken action to identify themselves as an interested prospect.
For simplicity sake, generally, a person (whom we shall refer to as a ‘prospect’) requests information from an advertisement via display advertising, direct mail, internet, or the telephone.
This is my basic definition of what a ‘lead’ is. Most of us are well aware of what a ‘lead’ is, and what ‘lead generation‘ is as well. But since this is my very first post, why not start from scatch, eh?
My name is Brian Maroevich, and I have written several courses on direct marketing and lead generation.
I won’t reveal the details of these courses right now. Maybe some other time. However, I am working on a brand new lead generation manual that I might call, ’21st Century Lead Generation’.
We shall see.
Keep a look out for new videos, marketing tips, and much more.
Posted on September 29th, 2008 by admin and filed under lead generation | No Comments »