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Toddler Has ‘Tea Party’ With Texas Police Officer Who Saved Her Life One Year Ago
A Texas police officer sat down for a "tea party" on Tuesday with a 2-year-old girl whose life he saved one year ago.
Corporal Patrick Ray, 30, saved Bexley when she was choking on a coin at her home in Rowlett, Texas.
"Her lips were completely blue," her mother, Tammy Norvell, 41, told CNN.
She called 911, and Ray was there within minutes.
"I could not believe how fast he got here," Norvell said.
He was able to pry Bexley's mouth open to perform a "finger sweep." His body camera captured the moment she started breathing again.
"It was the most beautiful sound I'd ever heard in my entire life," Ray told CNN affiliate KTVT.
He came to check on Bexley in the hospital after doctors determined she swallowed a coin.
"Last time I checked, that was not their job description," Norvell said.
To celebrate a year of life after that scary day, Bexley's mother, Tammy Norvell, wanted to do something to commemorate the occasion.
She decided on a photoshoot, in the theme of a tea party.
"We do tea parties all the time," said photographer Chelle Cates, "but we don't normally invite grown men to them."
Cates said Ray was a natural.
"He picked up that tiny little chair and sat down," she said, "I didn't give him a lot of direction."
The two unlikely friends shared Apple Jacks and Oreos.
"He just talked to her and asked her how her Oreos were," she said.
But why mark a day that could have ended tragically?
"I wanted to make something positive out of a negative thing," Norvell told CNN.
Ray saved Bexley's life that day, "I'm not going to let someone like that walk out of my life," Norvelle said.
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A Texas police officer sat down for a "tea party" on Tuesday with a 2-year-old girl whose life he saved one year ago.
Corporal Patrick Ray, 30, saved Bexley when she was choking on a coin at her home in Rowlett, Texas.
"Her lips were completely blue," her mother, Tammy Norvell, 41, told CNN.
She called 911, and Ray was there within minutes.
"I could not believe how fast he got here," Norvell said.
He was able to pry Bexley's mouth open to perform a "finger sweep." His body camera captured the moment she started breathing again.
"It was the most beautiful sound I'd ever heard in my entire life," Ray told CNN affiliate KTVT.
He came to check on Bexley in the hospital after doctors determined she swallowed a coin.
"Last time I checked, that was not their job description," Norvell said.
To celebrate a year of life after that scary day, Bexley's mother, Tammy Norvell, wanted to do something to commemorate the occasion.
She decided on a photoshoot, in the theme of a tea party.
"We do tea parties all the time," said photographer Chelle Cates, "but we don't normally invite grown men to them."
Cates said Ray was a natural.
"He picked up that tiny little chair and sat down," she said, "I didn't give him a lot of direction."
The two unlikely friends shared Apple Jacks and Oreos.
"He just talked to her and asked her how her Oreos were," she said.
But why mark a day that could have ended tragically?
"I wanted to make something positive out of a negative thing," Norvell told CNN.
Ray saved Bexley's life that day, "I'm not going to let someone like that walk out of my life," Norvelle said.
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