What A Miracle Little Girl. This Is A Real Feel Good Story!
Updated : Feb 14, 2009
Three-year-old Oluchi Nwaubani fell into a freezing swimming pool in September and spent 18 minutes underwater. Her little brain was deprived of oxygen for three times as long as the brain can usually survive without oxygen. Doctors were surprised that she was even alive, but told her parents to prepare for the worst. They cautioned her parents that even if their daughter recovered, she’d likely be in a vegetative state. Her father, Junior, says they relied on their Christian faith to help them pull through.
And pull through she did! Doctors now expect Oluchi to make a full recovery. Dr. Vinay Nadkarni of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the USA said â€Oluchi’s recovery is very very rare. Oluchi was able to make it because some kids and babies have a reflex called the diving reflex, which allows the body to slow down their metabolism to almost nothing, so the body needs very little oxygen for brain cells to survive. A mixture of luck, genetics, and wonderful patient care have given Oluchi a second chance at life“.
This story would bring a tear to a glass eye!
