A homeless man saved the life of a baby born with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. The incident happened at a truck stop in Oklahoma City, where a woman in labor and her husband urgently parked. Outwardly, the savior resembled Jesus - or so it seemed to the woman in labor.
According to the mother of Keaton Mason, she does not know if her child would have been able to survive if this stranger had not come to the rescue. “He was our angel that night,” she said.
On October 11, Mason and his fiancée were driving home when the woman suddenly began labor four weeks ahead of schedule. The frightened couple parked in a truck stop and began to call 911. But the girl was born swiftly: Mason released herself from the burden right in the front seat of their Honda. The child was not breathing.
Jennifer Morris, a witness to what is happening, said that the young mother began to shout: "My baby is blue, he does not breathe!" It was then that the tramp Gary Wilson walked up to the couple, calmly picked up the phone, listened to the rescue dispatcher and began to follow his instructions. He freed the baby's neck from the umbilical cord, cut it and began to rub the girl's back until she began to breathe.
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“He did everything completely right,” doctor Sandra Lesperance told reporters. Wilson's voice was confident, he remained completely calm and after successful manipulations he told his parents: "It's okay, she's breathing."
Tatum Brown was born with a weight of four pounds 11 ounces (about two kilograms). In the afternoon, Wilson left the family and continued on his way, saying that he was heading from Montana to Jacksonville.
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