Jamie and a friend performed CPR on Alise for 12 minutes before her heartbeat returned.
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Alise was attending a pool party with her mother, Jamie Nipper, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on July 29, when she “drowned” in the pool apparently because she was not wearing a life jacket when she entered the water. “She was blue”. After some parents noted lightning in the area, her mother, Jamie Nipper, did a pool scan and did not see her daughter.
“I was so amazed and joyful, I can’t describe it”, said Kyle. Noone knew how long she had been at the bottom of the pool.
Within two weeks, Alise was able to go home: “His [God’s] hand was in it the entire time because there is no earthly, physical, rational way that little girl is running around and talking less than two weeks later”, Rowles told the news outlet.
But the whole family was shocked as the child rapidly began to recover after only six days in the hospital.
Alise was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
Doctors can’t explain how a three-year-old girl made a miraculous recovery after almost drowning.
While Alise fought for her life at the hospital, friends of the family started a Facebook page, asking everyone to Boldly Pray For Alise.
Without oxygen getting to her brain for that amount of time, doctors feared that Alise may have suffered long-term brain damage.
“The day we left it was surreal”.
Kyle, a nurse and CPR instructor, said she had “little hope” but added: ‘I said we are going to do CPR until an ambulance gets here’. Today, the toddler is functioning normally and seems unaffected, physically and mentally by the accident, a recovery her family credits to their faith, KFVS reported.
“For her brain to come through this and be as functional as possible is astounding”, Dr. Jeremy Garrett said to KVFS. “Prayer and luck and divine intervention were the key factors”.
Alise’s father, Chris, said he was “extremely grateful” for the opportunity to have his daughter back. “[We are] so blessed”.
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Ms Nipper is now on a mission to share the story of her daughter’s recovery and encourage everyone to become CPR certified. The Gordonville Fire Department, who were the first responders to the accident, hosted free training in August.
