BRADFORD COUNTY, PA -- Lacey Satterly is a seventh grade student at SRU Middle School. Satterly's favorite subject is language arts, although she enjoys all of her classes.

Satterly was finishing up her day last month when something went wrong.

"I was heading toward the office and a little girl called my name. And I turned around and it was Lacey. And she said Mrs. Morgan I don't feel well. And when I turned around, she had passed out," said Heather Morgan, a sixth grade teacher at SRU.

"I went out to assess the situation and once I got out there, determined that it was a serious arrest kind of situation," said Kay Low, SRU school nurse.

Satterly had stopped breathing. The adults took over.

"I did the breathing for Lacey and the nurse did all the compressions for about 20 minutes. And we had other teachers who came in and assisted with us," said Morgan.

They kept Satterly alive for nearly a half hour until the ambulance arrived.

"We just worked as a team trying to save Lacey and anything that it took," Morgan said.

When the ambulance came, crews took Satterly to a Sayre hospital and then flew her to Syracuse where she underwent emergency surgery. Less than three weeks later, Satterly was back in these halls.

"She's truly a miracle,” said Low. “She is meant for special things."

The nurse and teachers who helped Satterly were recognized at an assembly Friday, especially by her parents.

"Just phenomenal what these teachers have done. Everyone should aspire to what they've done, their achievement, saving my daughter's life," said Court Satterly, Lacey’s dad.

"Anybody who could think that quick and perform CPR on a little girl that's just laying there with no life in here like they did, very, very special people. There's not enough to say for them or about them," said Lacey’s mom, Susan Satterly.

Except possibly these words from a grateful little girl.

"Thank you for saving my life," Satterly said.

Satterly has gotten back into her school routine and says she's looking forward to the Halloween dance.