NORTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey — With his infectious smile and warm demeanor, Victor Poupart looks like he just cheated death.
That’s because he did.
“I don’t remember anything, said the high school sophomore. “Just waking up in the hospital. That’s it.”
It’s ironic he doesn’t remember what might become the most memorable and consequential day of his life. His mother, however, will never forget.
“It was scary. It all seemed to happen very slowly in my head,” said Carla Poupart, Victor’s mother. “Things just weren’t ever happening fast enough. But by what the doctors tell me, if it didn’t happen as fast as it did, things would’ve been much different today.”
It was just days before Christmas, when she picked him up at dismissal from North Brunswick Township High School in New Jersey and the unthinkable happened.
“He stopped talking for a second and he said, ‘Mom, I feel dizzy,'” Carla recalled. “And as I was telling him, ‘Oh …