From left, John, Eli and Stephanie Cooper and Greenville, SC, Letter Carrier Christopher Brown. Photo: Greer Today
Greenville, SC, Letter Carrier Chris Brown, who recently saved toddler Eli Cooper by performing the Heimlich maneuver on him, will be a guest on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Sept. 18.
Producers of the show heard about Brown’s heroic act and invited him and the Cooper family to appear and tell their story. Eli recently celebrated his first birthday.
Check local station listings for the show’s time in your area.
First responder
South Carolina letter carrier saves choking child
Greenville, SC, Letter Carrier Christopher Brown was delivering mail to a customer’s home when a woman approached him carrying her infant son.
She told Brown the child was choking on a piece of plastic wrapper, which she couldn’t dislodge. By the time the woman reached Brown, the child was unconscious.
Brown began performing the Heimlich maneuver. After a few tries, he cleared the plastic from the child’s throat.
“A calm just came over me and I just wanted to get this child breathing again. The child was so little, I worried about squeezing him too hard with the Heimlich maneuver,” Brown told the Greer Today news site.
Brown later posed for photos with Eli, the child he saved, and the boy’s parents, John and Stephanie Cooper.
Brown, who credits the Postal Service with providing him with the training he needed to save Eli’s life, told Greer Today he once considered becoming a firefighter or police officer before choosing a career with USPS.
“When you think about it, we are sometimes like first responders,” he said.
