On March 3, 2014, Cynthia Assemi and her 23-year-old son, Bijan, were watching TV, when the 47-year-old Northport hair stylist went into sudden cardiac arrest. They had just finished eating pancakes.

“I made a bad joke; I looked over and saw her head was back,” Bijan said.

Read on to learn how Bijan's knowledge of CPR was able to save his mother's life before it was too late, and how you too can be trained in CPR as well!