Tina Eden

remebers the feeling of absolute panic.

She was sitting

in her classroom at Landmark Christian School during a planning period

when she started choking.

"I remember

taking a bite of a sandwich and a bite of a Dorito and not being able

to breathe," she said.

As the room

started fading to black, Eden felt pressure on her back and immediately

started coughing up the blockage.

Luckily,

her son, fifth grader Jimmy Eden, was in her clasroom and performed

the Heimlich maneuver.

Tina Eden,

who teaches elementary art at the school, believes her son was placed

in that classroom for a reason.

"He

had been sick that week, but got up that morning to go to school. He

started getting sick again, so I just brought him into my classroom

with me," she said.

Eden is convinced

that she would have died if her son had not been in in the room.

"There

was not another class scheduled for another 50 minutes," she said.

For his efforts,

Jason Eden has been honored for heroism and valor.

He was presented

with a plaque by Fulton County Paramedic/firefighter Tom Bohn during

a chapel gathering at the school.

Bohn demonstrated

the lifesaving maneuver to the students after presenting the award to

Jimmy and, since that time, all faculty and staff at Landmark have updated

their CPR certifications as a precautionary measure.

The plaque

Jimmy received was donated by John Gossett from Iron Horse Graphics

in Fairburn. The inscription read, "Not everyone is touched by

God and blessed with the awesome task of helping Him rescue, in time

of peril, one of His souls. This blessing is reserved for a chosen few

and in this case is twofold as the soul in peril was not only that of

Jimmy's teacher but was also that of his loving mother."

Jimmy and

his mother and sister live in Peachtree City.