Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Accident

This past weekend my whole family came up for a visit to see a Grizzlies game and have some fun. They all got hotel rooms at a nearby hotel and were ready to do some swimming. The boys and I went down to join them and were having a good time.
My brother and his crew arrived a little later and jumped on in. However,there were a lot of people in the pool and it was very loud. We somehow we lost track of his girlfriend's 5 year old daughter ,Amanda, and she had a terrible accident. The next thing we knew a woman had pulled her from the water and they were doing CPR on her little body. It was such a tragic and terrifying accident. None of us saw what happened and none of us could do a thing to help, we just stood there helpless while help arrived and she was lift-flighted to Primary Children's Hospital.
She has been in a drug induced comma since Friday night due to many things going on caused by the accident. They are working right now at slowly taking her off her ventilator to see how she does breathing on her own and will wake her up when they feel it's safe and assess more things that could possibly be wrong.
We are all pretty shaken by this accident and are keeping her in our thoughts and prayers while we do what we need to do in our own everyday lives. Please cross your fingers for Amanda and her family. We are all rooting for a full recovery. I will keep you posted as I know more.

1 comment:

Mindy said...

Oh, Becca. That is awful! Let us know how she is doing and tell Ryan and his girlfriend we're thinking of them.