{"id":169615,"date":"2017-07-24T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=169615"},"modified":"2017-07-24T21:10:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T01:10:53","slug":"hours-live-drowning-eden-healed-new-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hours-live-drowning-eden-healed-new-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Given hours to live after nearly drowning, Eden was healed by a new treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In February 2016, two-year-old Eden Carlson fell into the family swimming pool and nearly drowned. Without a heartbeat for two hours, she suffered significant brain damage, and doctors ultimately gave her 48 hours or less to live. Over a year later, however, Eden is nearly back to normal.<\/p>\n

After managing to get through the gate, little Eden was in the 41 degrees Fahrenheit water for 15 minutes before she was found. She had no pulse and was not breathing. Her mother performed CPR for 10 minutes until the ambulance arrived. EMTs\u00a0performed CPR for another 30 minutes, and once she arrived at the hospital, CPR was performed for another 65 minutes. She received blood, fluids, and 17 EPI shots to get a heartbeat before she was finally resuscitated. Eden was alive but major organs weren’t working and she was unresponsive. Doctors believed she had significant brain damage and felt there was nothing they could do for her. She was given just hours to live.<\/p>\n

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But Eden overcame the obstacles and survived. One month after the near-drowning, Eden was still alive, although she remained unresponsive and immobile. MRI scans showed extensive damage to the grey matter in her brain and she had lost both grey and white matter.\u00a0Doctors told her parents that she would never walk, talk, or eat normally again. They said she had no brain activity and would remain in a vegetative state. After five weeks in the hospital, Eden was sent home with\u00a0zero hope of a recovery.<\/p>\n