MONCKS CORNER, SC — A Moncks Corner family is forever grateful and hailing a local woman as their hero after she helped save their son’s life during a recent softball game.
This angel in the in-field was simply at the right place at the right time when two-year-old Liam Rochester needed help.
Mother Charity Faulk says her family was at the Moncks Corner Recreation Complex to watch her niece play softball at her May 3rd game. Liam was playing with his older brother and other friends, and the group was headed through a walkway to their seats when suddenly the boy began having trouble.
Charity says first he started to wobble, then fell to the ground, and then began convulsing, suffering a seizure. She carried her son toward his daddy, which happened to be near where Brandy Turner, a medical assistant who works at MUSC, had just finished watching her child’s ball game. She sprang into action to help.
“I saw that he was seizing. I took him from dad and laid him down so he wouldn’t bite his tongue. He stopped breathing for one to two minutes, so I gave him a sternum rub. He came out of his seizure and we watched him for a few minutes until the ambulance arrived,” said Brandy. “I was just trying to make sure he was ok, not going to choke, and not hurt himself.”
Charity says those minutes were a blur to her, but Brandy had taken control of the situation by holding Liam as he had the seizure and briefly stopped breathing. She says Brandy also kept him responsive until an ambulance arrived. An EMT was also nearby and helped.
“I just think she is a lifesaver,” said Charity.
Liam was checked out by a doctor who said he had suffered a febrile seizure, caused by a fever or body temperature spike. Other than being watched a little more closely by his parents for signs or symptoms again, days later he has returned to his playful self.
“He doesn’t really remember anything other than going to the hospital and having a booboo on his knee from where he fell,” said Charity.
The evening of the emergency, Charity says Brandy found her on Facebook and sent a message just to check up on Liam and make sure he was doing okay.
“I told her I’d really like to meet her and let her see the little boy she helped save and the kid he normally is,” said Charity.
Not even a week later at another game, Brandy and Liam met again, under much better circumstances. They posed for pictures and Liam’s family wanted to thank her personally for her life saving and heroic efforts thatday.
“I just hugged her and I cried,” said Charity.
Brandy says she’s been a medical assistant five and a half years and was simply doing what she knew to do.
“It’s normal for me. It’s not anything I wouldn’t do under a normal basis. I saw he was in trouble and I did what I was trained to do,” she said.
For mom Charity and the rest of Liam’s family, they feel thankful Brandy was there for them.
“We are so blessed to have been where we were and that she was in the right place at the right time. I thank God she was there for our baby,” said Charity.
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