Three-Year-Old Saved After Drowning In Family Swimming Pool
Three-year-old daughter of a Missouri couple has miraculously recovered after she was drowned in swimming pool during a family party on July 29 in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Alise Nipper was found floating in a swimming pool, unresponsive, after a party with friends. The kid today has made a remarkable recovery and is functioning normally. Alise appears to be unaffected physically and mentally by the accident, KFVS reported.
Alise, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was playing after school with her friends before the pool was cleared. Her mother Jamie Nipper said she spotted her daughter's foot under a raft. No one knew how long she had been at the bottom of the pool, she said.
When the kid was taken out of the pool, she was blue. Jamie and a friend decided to immediately perform CPR on Alise for 12 minutes before her heartbeat returned.
Jamie told KFVS that while they gave Alise CPR, all of a sudden her lips turned pink and her heart started to pump, and she started breathing normal.
Alise was, thereafter, rushed to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis. Dr. Jeremy Garrett told KFVS that her body and her brain were hurt and her lungs also had a severe injury. Since no one knew how long Alise had been under water, the lack of oxygen to her brain was potentially devastating, the doctor added.
Russell Grammer, director of the Prodigy Leadership Academy in Cape Girardeau where Alise studied, said, "Our first response was to start praying and notifying people".
Grammer said they started a GoFundMe page for Alise's ongoing medical expenses and a family friend set up the Facebook group, Boldly Pray for Alise.
Alise is undergoing rehabilitation services through the Hope Therapeutic Horsemanship Center in Perryville, Missouri.