During the most painful 30 seconds of my entire life, I thought our 2-year-old daughter was dying.
Over Labor Day weekend in 2016, I experienced the most painful 30 seconds of my entire life – I thought our 2-year-old daughter was dying. My husband screamed a sound I’ve never heard him make. We saw her floating face down in a hot tub, and the sheer horror of seeing her blue, seemingly lifeless body pulled out of the water is an image I’m fighting to move past.has a very happy ending, and I feel comfortable sharing a few details about our daughter's accident.
I’d read article after article this summer about how drowning doesn’t look anything like the movies, so I was ready to prevent it from happening to my girls. Jamie and I even talked two days prior to our trip about extra pool precautions we were going to take and talked about if we were nervous. She’ll keep her floaty on. There will be an extra lock on the door that my in-laws installed. We willtake our eyes off of her for a second.
Jamie threw her to me, I held her, and he took over the 911 call. The paramedics came, I begged them to tell me she was okay, but they wouldn’t do that. They just kept telling me that she was in good hands and that she was alive. Though the doctors told us almost immediately upon arrival that Hadley was going to survive this and likely didn’t have severe brain damage, I didn’t breathe my first real sigh of relief until she accepted a popsicle around midnight. She loves popsicles, and she was “with it” enough to want that beautiful purple popsicle.
We’ve had a lot of time to talk, cry, and reflect on what happened and how to make sure this never happens to our children or hopefully any child again.1.) Having more adults around can be beneficial, or hurtful. It’s easy to identify that I let my guard down when it came to watching Hadley closely because I assumed there were more people to watch her, but in this situation more people actually served as a distraction. We all indirectly thought someone else was watching her.
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