It's a question that Alexis Simon has asked herself repeatedly since the morning of Dec. 12: How do you thank someone for saving your life?
That day in December, Simon was in her classroom at Trafford Middle School, where she works as a special education teacher. Just before 9 a.m., she asked her co-teacher, Michael Cleland, to come into the room so that they could respond to an email together. They finished writing and Simon, eight months pregnant with her first child, suggested they read it over before sending it.
"All of a sudden, I heard this odd breathing and she slumped over and it started happening," said Cleland. "She was kind of breathing hard and sliding out of the chair."
