When Stephanie Cooper's 11-month-old baby son Eli put a plastic wrapper in his mouth, he began to choke. Stephanie turned Eli over and pounded on his back, but the wrapper remained lodged inside his throat. Stephanie was frantic. Just as she mentally blacked out, an unexpected hero took over.
“It’s a miracle,” Stephanie Cooper, Eli’s mother, said of mailman Chris Brown’s timely delivery of a package that required him to come to her door. The panicked mother ran outside looking for help. There was a man named Chris Brown, her postal carrier in this small South Carolina town.
Chris didn’t say a word. He just grabbed the clearly distressed 11-month-old and performed the Heimlich maneuver. To Stephanie's shock, the plastic wrapper flew out of Eli's mouth as he started to cry.
A 24-year veteran of the postal service, Chris learned how to do to the Heimlich maneuver years ago during emergency training with the post office. This was the first time he ever had to put that training to use.
Stephanie believes it was fate that brought Chris to her home at the exact moment her family needed him. She and her husband called their mailman a hero, but Chris remained humble.
“I really don’t feel that way because to me I would have done it for anyone or I hope someone would have done it for my children,” he said.
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