Five year old drowns - and comes back

[Scott]

“I know how I drown-ded,” Nick volunteered to TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Thursday in New York. “That thing that helps you breathe. It was under water … and I was at the bottom of the ocean.”

“That thing” was a snorkel, and the bottom of the ocean was a seemingly harmless 2½ feet deep just offshore at a beach resort in Puerto Rico.


As a physician’s assistant, Kent Rilling knew just how grave the situation was. His son had been deprived of oxygen for as long as 8 minutes.

“He just looked gray and his lips were black. And I just knew that this was not going to be good,” Kent Rilling said. “It was really hard to see my son in the condition that he was.” But then his medical training kicked in: “Something just took over. We scooped him up, ran him up to the beach and just started CPR. It was second nature.”


He told his parents that when he was underwater and drowning, he saw a bright light. God, in the form of a dove, pulled him out of the water, he told them. He drew them a picture of what he saw.

Link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27696364/)

That's really weird. A kid would definitely not make something like that up.

[rukisuto]

That's amazing C:
Sounds like the kid is pretty well for the lack of oxygen too, thank goodness.

[Yuuki]

I love hearing stories like this. Lol.
Hope that doesn't sound like the wrong type of thing to say. o.o;
Not that the kid dies. <.<
But that they come back to life. It's just cool.. Yeah.. Lol.

[LiNuX]

ah...i almost drowned once as a kid - thats why i dont know how to swim, never went back to learn lol - it was horrible - glad this kid was alright - i dont know when my drowning exp was, but around age 5 sounds good - it was before i broke my leg and that was age 5 or 6...lol

[Trunks]

Wow, no oxygen for 8 minutes and no brain damage, that's pretty amazing. I'm glad he's alright.

When I was 6 or so I jumped into a 4ft pool ( Parents and everyone was around ) and if I remember correctly. I stood on the bottom of the pool floor for a second or so. Then raised my hand and just the tip came out of the water, then someone pulled me out. I don't think I was close to drowning, I was only down there for maybe 10 seconds. No idea why I jumped in or why I raised my hand up. It was too long ago. Maybe I wanted to see how deep it was and I jumped in and raised my hand to see how close I was to the surface. Sounds good enough too me.

[conman1000]

Weird, kids never fake this kind of stuff.