BILL PEARSON Mon, 12/14/2020 - 1:45pm
LPN Kenzie Cox used her medical training on Nov. 25 to save a man who collapsed in the small mall parking lot. Courtesy of Boothbay Harbor Police Department
2020 has been an eventful year for 21-year old Virginia native Kenzie Cox. In April, she married U.S. Coast Guardsman Corey Cox. In May, she graduated from Rappahahock Community College with a nursing degree. In June, she joined her husband stationed at the Boothbay Harbor Coast Guard Base. And in November, she saved a man’s life.
On Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving, Cox was waiting in the small mall parking lot for her medical appointment at Boothbay Regional Health Center. Cox was in her car and saw a man walking toward the parking lot. He suddenly collapsed. He fell to his knees before falling over and eventually was laying on his side. “It was like seeing a person drop to his knees after learning they had lost a child,” she said. “It was raining, and I wonder