An eight-year-old Florida girl saves her stepdad from choking using the Heimlich maneuver, which she’d just learned two week before. Michael Langston was playing video games in the living room of his Brandenton home when he took a bite of a sandwich and a piece got lodged in his windpipe. His eight-year-old stepdaughter,Peyton wasted no time in performing the Heimlich maneuver on Langston, thrusting twice and dislodging the food from his throat, likely saving his life.