It’s a “miracle,” a Missouri toddler came back to life a full 12 minutes after drowning in a pool.
Story :
Jamie Nipper and her 3-year-old daughter Alise went to a pool party with some friends on July 29. What happened next: Nipper said that after playing for a few hours, the parents saw lightning and began to get the kids out of the pool. Moments later, Nipper looked back and didn’t see Alise in the pool. The mom searched the area, until she saw her daughter’s foot sticking out from under a raft.
Heather Kyle, a friend at the party, nurse and CPR instructor, stepped up immediately. Kyle explained that while she didn’t expect a positive outcome, she continued to do CPR until the ambulance arrived. Twelve minutes passed as Kyle performed CPR on the lifeless girl, when suddenly Alise’s heart started beating again. Doctors confirm that Alise’s brain and lungs were injured in the accident, but the little girl has — miraculously — made a full recovery.
Nipper has a special message for every parent who reads her story: Learn CPR, even if you think you will never use it. In Nipper’s case, it was a friend’s CPR training and quick thinking on her feet that saved her daughter’s life.
Statistics:
The latest CDC figures are hard to argue with: Drowning is the No. 1 unintentional cause of death among children ages 1 to 4. An estimated 390 children drown in pools or spas each year, from the ages of 0 to 14 years old, and 76 percent of drowning deaths involve children younger than age 5. And here’s the part where the risk applies to you and every parent you know: There are 8.8 million residential and public pools in the U.S. A swimming pool is 14 times more likely to contribute to the death of a child under 4 than a car accident is.
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