HUNTINGTON, New York (WABC) -- A mother on Long Island spoke out Wednesday about the day she rushed her 4-year-old child to the hospital after he stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest.

Maria Carlin, who is also a nurse, had to decide whether to pull over and give her son CPR or continue to race to the hospital.

She chose not to stop and when she got to the hospital, doctors were able to save her son's life.

She described the most harrowing drive of her life to the hospital.

"I remember God just saying don't look back at him, you can't handle this right now," Carlin said.

After a fun day on the water, Jack had a croupy cough and had gone to bed, but was having trouble breathing.

"All of a sudden it sounded like he was breathing through a coffee straw, he was squeaking like a

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