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Gabriel Bergeron, a young waiter at the Mongolian Village restaurant on Ogilvie Road, is being hailed as a hero after preventing a customer from choking on a morsel of food.
On Saturday afternoon, Tracy Hill and her family of six, including her husband, very pregnant daughter Emily and her partner, and son Zack, turned up at the restaurant. They let their waiter, Gabriel as it happened, know they had to leave by 4:30 p.m. to take Emily to the Montfort Hospital to deliver a baby.
Gabriel, she said, promised to make sure they made their appointment. “He was outstanding from the beginning,” Hill says.
And so they were soon enjoying their food. At one point, though, Tracy noticed Zack, 18, appeared to be choking. At first she thought it would resolve itself. But then she looked at his eyes: “I have never seen such fear,” she said.
Tracy jumped from her chair and tried to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre over and over again. It didn’t work. Her son continued to choke.
Hill says she turned to others in the restaurant, pleading for help as her started to turn “unnatural colours.” That’s when 21-year-old Gabriel “appeared out of nowhere.”
“He just grabbed Zack, lifted him right off the floor and Heimliched him, and the piece of calamari popped right out — onto the plate.”
From left, are Zach Hill, brand new baby Sophia, Emily Cleroux, and Tracy Hill.
Hill, no surprise, is immensely grateful. Zack, she ways, would be dead if not for an “amazing waiter. I just need to thank him in every way possible. He needs some kind of reward or recognition. All the hugs, the thank yous and the $50 tip are not enough, not compared with what he did.”
For his part, Bergeron was modest about receiving any recognition. “I just saw someone in trouble and kind of helped him out,” he says.
Bergeron, who has worked at the restaurant for about two months, says he’s seen people choking before but it doesn’t usually result in such a serious incident. He usually gets them a glass of water to help wash it down.
In this case, he was more concerned because Zack was “breathing in but nothing was coming out. For a split second, I was pretty worried myself.”
Bergeron acknowledged that he’d never performed the Heimlich manoeuvre before, but recalls “some training” back in elementary school.
Tracy Hill’s day of gratitude doesn’t end there, however. The family got Emily to the hospital on time. She was soon delivered of a healthy baby girl, providing Hill with her first grandchild.
Considering the life-and-death events of the day, it is perhaps appropriate the newborn was named Sophie Serenity.
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On Saturday afternoon, Tracy Hill and her family of six, including her husband, very pregnant daughter Emily and her partner, and son Zack, turned up at the restaurant. They let their waiter, Gabriel as it happened, know they had to leave by 4:30 p.m. to take Emily to the Montfort Hospital to deliver a baby.
Gabriel, she said, promised to make sure they made their appointment. “He was outstanding from the beginning,” Hill says.
And so they were soon enjoying their food. At one point, though, Tracy noticed Zack, 18, appeared to be choking. At first she thought it would resolve itself. But then she looked at his eyes: “I have never seen such fear,” she said.
Tracy jumped from her chair and tried to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre over and over again. It didn’t work. Her son continued to choke.
Hill says she turned to others in the restaurant, pleading for help as her started to turn “unnatural colours.” That’s when 21-year-old Gabriel “appeared out of nowhere.”
“He just grabbed Zack, lifted him right off the floor and Heimliched him, and the piece of calamari popped right out — onto the plate.”
From left, are Zach Hill, brand new baby Sophia, Emily Cleroux, and Tracy Hill.
Hill, no surprise, is immensely grateful. Zack, she ways, would be dead if not for an “amazing waiter. I just need to thank him in every way possible. He needs some kind of reward or recognition. All the hugs, the thank yous and the $50 tip are not enough, not compared with what he did.”
For his part, Bergeron was modest about receiving any recognition. “I just saw someone in trouble and kind of helped him out,” he says.
Bergeron, who has worked at the restaurant for about two months, says he’s seen people choking before but it doesn’t usually result in such a serious incident. He usually gets them a glass of water to help wash it down.
In this case, he was more concerned because Zack was “breathing in but nothing was coming out. For a split second, I was pretty worried myself.”
Bergeron acknowledged that he’d never performed the Heimlich manoeuvre before, but recalls “some training” back in elementary school.
Tracy Hill’s day of gratitude doesn’t end there, however. The family got Emily to the hospital on time. She was soon delivered of a healthy baby girl, providing Hill with her first grandchild.
Considering the life-and-death events of the day, it is perhaps appropriate the newborn was named Sophie Serenity.
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