A teenager in Buffalo, N.Y., recently got the chance to thank the woman who saved his life – by saving hers.
Kevin Stephan, 17, successfully performed the Heimlich maneuver on the choking woman in the restaurant where he was washing dishes. Then his mother recognized the woman as the nurse who performed CPR on him in 1999 after he was struck in the chest by a baseball bat.
More than a week after the Jan. 27 incident, Kevin Stephan and his mother, Penny Brown, are still surprised by the coincidence.
“It was meant to happen,” said Stephan, now a volunteer firefighter. “I’m Catholic, and I believe the Lord kind of set things up.”
As for Brown, she says, “One good turn deserves another.”
The nurse says she can’t think too much about the situation “without being freaked” by it.
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