Eighty-seven-year-old Patty Ris didn't know it, but she was certainly in the right place at the right time when she started choking on a bit of hamburger in the dining hall of her retirement home in Cincinnati Monday.Staff rushed to Ris's aid, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports, but stopped when they realized she was in expertly good hands. Seated next to her was none other than Dr. Henry Heimlich, 96—of Heimlich maneuver fame—who was all "I got this" and started to perform the choking procedure he pioneered in the 1970s to save his fellow resident.Staff member Perry Gains told the Enquirer that, although he's trained in the Heimlich maneuver and was ready to help the gagging woman, he let Dr. Heimlich take the reins since, well, he's Dr. Heimlich.The incident was reportedly the first time Heimlich has ever had to perform his revolutionary procedure on a real life choking victim. Heimlich's son told the paper he was impressed his 96-year-old dad could even manage to perform his procedure successfully, but it makes sense considering he's demonstrated the procedure countless times and stays in ridiculously great shape in his old age.Ris is just as appreciative—she told the Enquirer she wrote Heimlich a note after the incident that said simply, "God put me in this seat next to you."