A Pennsylvania Taco Bell employee is being called a hero for her quick thinking in saving a baby’s life.
Bucks County manager Becky Arbaugh performed chest compressions on 11-month-old Myles as he struggled to breathe. The child’s mother, Natasha Long, described the dramatic scene when the two initially picked up a prescription at a local pharmacy and stopped at Taco Bell. When she heard Myles choke, she remembered blacking out.
“I ran out of the car, ran around and opened the car door. I pulled him out and he turned completely blue and lifeless,” Long recalled. “I didn’t know what to do.”
Enter Arbaugh, who Long described as a “guardian angel,” to restore life to breathless baby Myles.
“I threw my headphones away. I ran outside. I grabbed the baby and started doing chest compressions on the baby and then he finally started breathing,” Arbaugh explained. “When my children were little, my daughter had a similar incident, so I knew what she was feeling. I knew that if I kept her calm and stayed calm, I wouldn’t think about the baby not breathing again.”
It was this calmness that Long credits with saving her baby’s life.
“We couldn’t be more grateful to Becky. She saved my son’s life,” Long emphasized.
While Arbaugh may be hailed as a hero, she says that as a mother she simply saw another mother who needed help.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
