A Pinson teenager is recovering after nearly dying on the baseball field last month.
According to a WBRC report, 15-year-old Evan Tucker was at travel ball tryouts over Easter weekend to get some extra practice after finishing up with the Pinson Valley High School baseball team when he suffered cardiac arrest.
“I guess I had thought he had got hit by a ball,” the boy's mom, Samantha Tucker, told the news station. “I jumped up and I heard somebody say, ‘He’s having a seizure,’ so I took off running.”
“It was sheer panic, like shock actually,” she added. “I didn’t know what to do, I just kept talking to him.”
A stranger who happened to see the teen collapse sprung into action and performed CPR on him as he was turning blue.
Johnette Wilmot, whose 11-year-old son was also at tryouts, said she learned CPR in high school but had never used it. She told the outlet that she hummed "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees for about eight minutes until an ambulance arrived.
“I learned CPR in high school when I was 17, and I’ve never had to use it in 40 years,” she told WBRC.
Evan was quickly rushed to Children's Hospital, where he had to be shocked to restore his heart's rhythm.
“The entire ride in the ambulance I was saying, ‘Jesus, I trust in you,’” Samantha Tucker said. “I had a peace about me because somehow, I knew that he was going to be OK.”
Evan was in a coma for a few days but is on the mend as he regains his strength. He has already been able to walk without any help and talk again.
“Miracles happen. If it hadn’t been for Johnette, if it hadn’t have been for the Lord, my son would not be here today," Samantha Tucker emphasized.
Both moms urged for more people to learn CPR.
(h/t WMTV)
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