Wayne and Courtney Cramer were counting their blessings Sunday.
Just five days earlier, their son Colton suffered a medical incident at Redland Middle School where CPR and AEDs were used to keep him alive and a medical helicopter flew the seventh grader to Children’s Hospital in Birmingham.
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