Eight Year Old Saved Sister’s Life After Learning From John Cena TV Show Appearance

WNEP reports that an eight-year-old boy saved his sister’s life after she was choking, thanks to a technique he learned from John Cena. Jaxson Dempsey saw his 20-month-old sister Leila choking on a chicken nugget. He patted her on the back to force the food out, something he saw John Cena do on the Nickelodeon series The Substitute.

Jaxson said: “We were driving to my haircut, and I noticed she was starting to choke from a chicken nugget from McDonald’s. I told my dad to pull over. Then I was starting to pat on her back, and it got out. It’s called The Substitutes on Nickelodeon, and in the very first episode, John Cena was on it, and in the last part, he showed how to save someone when they’re choking.”

His dad Matt added: “He amazes us every day, you know—some of the things he says and does, and his actions. We’re simply blessed to have the child that he is, the things that he does for his family, his friends, for his little sister. He’s a good big brother. If I was by myself and Jaxson wasn’t with me, and I stopped and gave her a chicken nugget, I couldn’t hear her because she was choking. She wasn’t coughing; she wasn’t panicking. She just had no air going through; she wasn’t breathing,” Dempsey said. ” Thank God Jaxson was there because, without him, I don’t know if Lelia would be here.”

You can see the life-saving clip below: