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Speaker 1: No one noticed two year old Shelley quietly slipping out

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the back door. She made her way to the pool,

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gripping the ladder as she began to climb.

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Speaker 2: My daughter comes in. Mommy, Shelley's in the pool.

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Speaker 1: Shelley, her two year old, was in the pool. Melissa

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raced outside and found her daughter pale and motionless on

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the ground.

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Speaker 2: And I'm screaming, what happened? Somebody help? Call nine.

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Speaker 1: This is the Miracle Files. I'm Emily Jones.

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Speaker 3: And I'm Holly Worthington. We're two sisters who love a

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captivating true story, but we're also seeking more light in

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our lives.

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Speaker 1: So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,

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uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us

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on this journey.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Miracle Files. We had one of

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our listeners actually reach out to us and share today's

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story with us.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Melissa Ruiz shared this story with us, and I

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just have to say she is so brave because her

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story is traumatic and it's scary, but it's also so

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so good.

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Speaker 3: It really is. And speaking of that, this may be

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triggering for somebody who has lost someone to a drowning accident,

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so please keep that morning in mind.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this story is truly gut wrenching, but the miracle

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is also undeniable.

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Speaker 4: So buckle up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe grab a Kleenex as well. Yeah, let's go.

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Speaker 1: It was a muggy North Texas day in August twenty

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twenty two. Melissa Ruiz had worked the night shift. She

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never seemed to truly catch up on her sleep, but

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as a busy mom of six children, five of whom

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were still at home with her, Melissa had to keep going.

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Around five in the afternoon, her children came to her

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asking if they could go swimming in their above ground pool.

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Even though she was tired, she responded with an enthusiastic yes.

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Melissa loved spending time in the pool with her children

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and decided to join them.

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Speaker 5: My oldest son was seventeen at the time. I had

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asked him. I was like, you're going to go swimming?

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He said yes, you want me to get them ready?

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And I was like, okay, yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 1: While Melissa's son Alex helped the other kids get ready

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to go swimming, Melissa relaxed just for a minute on

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the couch. She hadn't intended to nap at all, but

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exhaustion overtook her. She blinked her heavy eyelids a few times,

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and then suddenly she dozed off. While Melissa slept and

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her children busied themselves changing into their swimsuits, no one

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noticed two year old Shy quietly slipping out the back door.

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With tiny, determined steps, she made her way to the pool,

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gripping the ladder as she began to climb. Suddenly, a

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voice broke through Melissa's sleep. It felt far away at first,

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Melissa opened her eyes. What was happening? Her daughter, Alicia

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had burst into the room, her face pale and eyes wide.

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Speaker 2: My daughter comes in, Mommy, Shelley's in the pool.

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Speaker 1: The words shot through Melissa's drowsiness like a bolt of lightning,

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sending her thoughts flying in all directions. Shelley, her two

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year old, was in the pool, her fun, spunky little toddler,

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her baby.

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Speaker 3: Melissa jumped up.

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Speaker 1: From the couch. She didn't even have time to grab

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a cell phone before she raced outside. It's hard to

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fathom the sheer terror Melissa must have felt when she

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reached her backyard and found her son, Alex trying to

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perform CPR on Shelley. Her two year old lay pale

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and motionless on the ground. The sight of her lifeless

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body sent a wave of despair crashing over Melissa.

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Speaker 2: And I'm screaming, what happened? Somebody help? I'm like call

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nine one one? Where are my phones?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 2: I did not know where nothing was.

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Speaker 1: The horrifying moment was caught on Melissa's security camera. In

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the video, you can see a shot of Melissa's front yard.

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Melissa's son Alex is on the front porch looking for Shelley.

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You can't see the pool, which is in the back,

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but you can tell the moment Shelley was found. And

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we'll warn you this recording is shocking and absolutely heartbreaking.

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Speaker 6: Shelley.

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Speaker 1: The screams were so loud that Melissa's sister, who lived

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next door hurt the commotion. On the security camera footage,

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you can see her sister running frantically to see what's

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going on. Other neighbors ran into the backyard. One woman

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yelled for someone to call.

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Speaker 5: Nine one one.

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Speaker 3: Then, in a panic, Melissa's.

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Speaker 1: Sister scooped Shelley up in her arms and ran her

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out to the front yard.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what my sister was thinking, but I

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was just frantic. I was just following her to the front.

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Speaker 1: On the video footage, you can see Shelley's body lying

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like a limp rag doll in her aunt's arms. Melissa

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feared her baby was already dead. She showed no signs

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of life at all. Melissa's son, Alex, called nine one

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one as he spoke with dispatch. Melissa's best friend, who

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lived across the street, pulled up and offered assistance. She

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rushed over, gently taking Shelley and trying to pat the

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water out of her lungs. Yet all Melissa could think

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was that everyone needed to act faster. Everything felt surreal,

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sounds were muffled, and the world around her blurred as

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she focused solely on her daughter. Where is everybody? Where

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are the paramedics? She wondered, her heart raised as the

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enormity of the situation threatened to engulf her.

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Speaker 5: My son was on the fallow with nine one one

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and the dispatch. Her wind up being my friend for years,

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She took the call.

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Speaker 1: Melissa's friend assured Alex that an ambulance was on the way.

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Amid the chaos, time felt distorted. Each second stretched painfully

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as Melissa begged for help. Finally, after almost seven minutes,

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a firetruck arrived and as first responders took over, Melissa

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watched the firefighters du CPR on Shelley. Her tiny body

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had turned a haunting shade of blue. Melissa felt a

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desperation like she'd never felt before. A few minutes later,

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paramedics arrived and took charge, whisking Shelley into the ambulance

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and asking Melissa to wait outside. Melissa stood frozen, her

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heart pounding, desperate to know what exactly was going on

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in the ambulance and hoping for a miracle. Then something

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amazing happened that made Melissa's heart leap. A tiny voice

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called out from inside the ambulance. The paramedics hurried to get.

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Speaker 5: Melissa, and then when they told me to come in,

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she's calling you. I go in the ambulance and I

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told her, Mommy's right here, baby, You're gonna be okay.

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Then she wasn't you know, no communication was coming out

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of her, but she was braving.

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Speaker 1: Melissa had felt a flood of relief at hearing her

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daughter's voice, but Shelley's moment of consciousness was gone in

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an instant, Shelley still lay in critical condition. Time was

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of the essence, but again it seemed to stand still

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as the paramedics debated the best course of action. Where

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are they taking her? Melissa wanted to know. She silently

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pleaded for them to hurry and decide. Finally, they told

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Melissa they were going to airlift Shelley to a children's hospital,

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and drove Shelley to a nearby high school to meet

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the helicopter following the ambulance in her friend's car. Melissa's

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worst fears swirled in her head. She couldn't shake the

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image of her daughter's lifeless body. She felt so helpless,

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and then she thought of the one thing she could do.

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Melissa believed in the power of prayer, and right now

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she needed that power more than ever.

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Speaker 5: I took a picture of us behind the ambulance. That's

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a picture I posted on Facebook, and I told him

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I didn't tell them what happened.

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Speaker 2: I just told him to please pray for baby Shelley.

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Speaker 5: And then I had everybody comment in prayers, prayers, prayers, prayers, prayers, prayers, prayers.

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Speaker 1: With so many prayers for baby Shelley being sent heavenward.

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Melissa knew it was now in God's hands. She reached

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the high school parking lot. Emergency personnel hurried to transfer

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Shelley from the ambulance to the helicopter, but Melissa couldn't

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get close enough to see what was happening. Instead, she

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was left standing with police officers who were trying to

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gather information. Their questions barely registered in her mind.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what to do, but just stand there

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and keep crying because I'm like, I don't know what's

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going on. I can't talk to nobody because they're way

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over there at the helicopter trying to get her in.

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I don't know what they're doing. All I know is

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they're going to children. And our deal was just to

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wait there, see her get on the helicopter, and we

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take off to Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Shelley was loaded into the helicopter and Melissa's husband, who

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had been at work, was notified that she was being

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taken to the children's hospital. Melissa and her husband drove

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step as quickly as they could, which turned out once

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again to be excruciatingly.

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Speaker 2: Slow, and it was rush hour downtown Dallas.

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Speaker 5: Traffic was crazy, and Children's just on the other side

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of downtown Dallas, so like you have to literally pass

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through downtown, all that Dallas traffic around downtown to get

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towards the hospital.

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Speaker 1: Finally, Melissa and her husband were reunited at the Children's hospital.

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They clung to each other for strength while trying to

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process the chaos of the day. The helicopter had touched

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down and the medical team had rushed Shelley into the ICU.

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Melissa and her husband were left anxiously waiting for news.

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Hours passed as Melissa battled with fear and guilt, wondering

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if there was something more she could have done to

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prevent this strategy. Meanwhile, doctors took X rays and worked

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on Shelley. They were concerned about the fluid that were

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maimed in Shelley's lungs.

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Speaker 5: They said that she had pulmonary edema. Where they took

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the X ray and it showed all the fluid in

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Speaker 1: Shelley was eventually sent to her hospital room, where she

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lay ashen and motionless. She had gone over ten minutes

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without breathing, an eternity when considering brain damage can occur

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in just four Melissa wondered if she would ever have

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her sweet, spunky little girl back again. Night passed, and

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the weight of uncertainty pressed down on Melissa as the

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next day unfolded. Nothing went as expected, because Shelley was

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expected to have little to no improvement.

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Speaker 5: They took another X ray and it was a lot

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less than what it was when they brought her in.

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the regular room, she was looking for Shelley.

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Speaker 4: But where was Shelley?

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Speaker 1: The hospital bed lay empty. The doctor looked around the room, confused,

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and then something extraordinary happened. She noticed a child playing

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near the hospital room window. Surely that couldn't be the

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same little girl who had just drowned, and yet it was.

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Speaker 5: And at that point, Shelley's in the window, looking out

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the window, in her gown, jumping on the cows, looking

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out the window, and I'm like, girl, sit down, come on, sit.

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Speaker 2: Down, you're gonna give me a heart attack.

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Speaker 6: We're already here.

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Speaker 2: The doctor walks in and she's like, Shelley.

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Speaker 1: Melissa pointed to the child the playing near the window.

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The doctor couldn't believe it. It defied all logic, but

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that's the nature of miracles. Isn't it. They often defy logic.

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Speaker 5: She goes, oh, wow, I was expecting her to be

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laid up in the bed, just out of it. She

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didn't expect her to be up, jumping around and smiling

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ear to ear like if nothing happened. And she's like, wow,

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this is a miracle because bed's here and she's over there.

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Speaker 1: Melissa couldn't believe it herself. She felt overwhelmed with gratitude

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and couldn't help but smile, knowing that every prayer, despite

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the instance of doubt and worry, had led to this

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triumphant moment. This is some footage of Shelley in the

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hospital after she woke up.

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Speaker 6: Shell.

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Speaker 2: I that you I too, I love you more. I'm

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I bring them up Alma.

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Speaker 1: Shelley was reunited with her family just two days after

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her accident, and as they left the hospital taking her

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daughter home alive and well, it still felt surreal to Melissa.

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Allie's recovery has been so miraculous that Melissa is glad

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she took some photos at the hospital with time stamps

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to document everything. She feels no one would believe her otherwise.

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Speaker 5: It's mind boweling, like you would never think that this

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was her. If I didn't put dates, I think anybody would.

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Speaker 2: Be like, oh no, that's not the day after.

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Speaker 5: You know, you're lying, you know, And I would have

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to bring pullet up on my phone and be like, look,

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this is the time stamps of everything and where with

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you know, stuff like that. But yeah, I don't think

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anybody would believe that those pictures were right after each other,

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Speaker 2: I don't believe it. But she left the hospital like

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nothing happened.

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Speaker 1: Shelley's miracle story is beautiful, but there is something more

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we haven't shared that makes this story even more incredible.

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You may have wondered how the kids first found Shelley

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in the pool. Well, it was her twelve year old

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brother ad n I who actually found her. H He

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was questioned later by the police, and we'll play the footage.

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Bear in mind, you'll notice he's kind of yelling because

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this was right after the drowning and this had been

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a very traumatic experience for him. But pay attention to

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what he says to the police officer. Here's the exchange.

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Speaker 7: We gotta know what happened so we can help her,

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and what's your name? Okay, look, hey, you're not in trouble.

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You just gotta know what happened. Look at me, look

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at me. That just gotta know what happened so we

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can help her. Okay, did you see what happened?

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Speaker 6: No? No, I had a feeling that when I was

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putting on my little brother's blony that she was in

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the pool about any bloony, So then I went in there.

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I sold, I sold her drowning. Okay, so how long

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was she?

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Speaker 4: Okay, if you didn't catch that.

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Speaker 1: When the police officer asked ad and I if he

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saw what happened, ad and I responded that he'd been

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putting a swimsuit on his little brother when he had

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a feeling come to him that Shelley was in the pool. Later,

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he mentioned this to his mother as well.

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Speaker 5: And he said that after all this happened, you know,

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he was like, something told me go check the poll.

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So he went out to the pole and that's when

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he found her at the bottom.

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Speaker 1: Melissa believes that's something that spoke to Adney's mind and

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heart was God, and because of the feeling that ad

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and I had, he was able to find his sister

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within minutes. If she'd gone any longer, It's very unlikely

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she would have been okay even now. It's a miracle

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that she's doing so well. While you might think Shelley

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would have a lot of anxiety after experiencing something so traumatic,

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Melissa says it's been the opposite. Shelley has returned from

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this experience absolutely fearless and just loves life.

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Speaker 5: She's the daredevil. I think she's like, I don't seen

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it at all. I've done died and I came back

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and I'm gonna live my life. I literally think that's

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what she thinks in her head, like I done died,

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I came back, and I'm gonna live my best life.

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Speaker 1: Today, Shelley is a vibrant five year old, full of

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energy and laughter, swimming like a little fish and embracing

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every opportunity that comes her way. Melissa often looks back

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on the day she drowned and shakes her head in disbelief,

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grateful for the miracle that is her daughter.

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Speaker 5: God has a purpose for her to be here. He

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has something for her for her life, like she's here

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for a reason and he knows what that res in it.

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Speaker 1: In the end, Melissa and her family have learned that

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life is unpredictable, but with God's grace, even the darkest

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moments can be turned for our good. This experience has

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bonded their family and helped them all to want to

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be more like Shelley, embracing and enjoying every moment of

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life God gives them.

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Speaker 3: So when Blake and I first listened to this one,

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Emily you had sent it to us. We listened to

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it in the car or we were driving to dinner,

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and afterwards neither one of us could even speak. We

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both had tears running down her faces and we were

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just silent.

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Speaker 1: It's a really emotional one, especially for me. The most

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traumatic part was hearing the actual videos, the video footage

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super traumatic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt like my heart was being ripped out.

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But an a amazing miracle, this family experience. It's just

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incredible that this little twelve year old ad and I

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had a feeling just come to him and let him

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know that his sister was in the pool and that

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she needed to be rescued.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my gosh, listening to his video was just

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my heart went out to him because this experience was

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truly traumatic for him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Melissa told us that she said that this has

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affected him more than Shelley even, But he's such a hero,

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and I hope he knows how amazing he is.

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Speaker 4: Yes, for sure.

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Speaker 3: And we actually got to meet Shelley, which was so cool.

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She's such a doll.

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Speaker 6: I know.

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Speaker 4: She was so cute. And here's a clip of us

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talking to Shelley. Shelley, how old are you?

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Speaker 6: Wow?

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Speaker 7: Wow?

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Speaker 3: Are you in kindergarten?

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Speaker 2: It's a pre K four? I think?

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Speaker 7: Ah.

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Speaker 4: Okay, can you tell us what you like to do

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for fun?

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Speaker 6: I chip.

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Speaker 3: Kitchen? Do you like to cook?

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Speaker 4: Wow? What kind of food do you like to make?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Hey, I want you to come live at my

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house and make me some cake.

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Speaker 4: Well, you're pretty cute, Shelly. It's so nice to meet you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so great to meet you.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: She is a horrible she is and Emily, I'm sure

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you would agree with me when I say she is

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a spitfire.

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Speaker 1: She kept poking her head up out of the corner

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when we were interviewing her mom, and really.

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Speaker 3: It was so funny.

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Speaker 4: Come over here, we want to meet you. She was

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so cute.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just so glad that everything turned out okay

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for her and I mean, it really is a miracle.

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As we were doing some research for this story, I

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read the children can drown in less than twenty seconds

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in water, and brain damage can occur in as little

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as four minutes. I mean, the fact that she came

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out of this unscathed, it's pretty miraculous.

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Speaker 3: That is so fast, that's so so scary to think about.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like one of my biggest fears. I'm

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sure all parents can relate to that fear. Yeah, and

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actions like this they can happen in an instant.

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Speaker 3: It made me think about like my grandkids. You know,

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my oldest grandkid is only three years old, so when

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they come over, we are going to be thinking a

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lot more about water safety. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think stories like this

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also give me a lot of hope. Yeah, because even

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though you know their family went through this traumatic experience,

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I feel like God healed Shelley, not just her body,

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but he also healed her mind and healed her from

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the anxiety and fear that she could go through.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I agree, incredible, it is, and it helps me

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personally just to know that God truly does heal those things.

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He has the power to heal our anxiety, our fear,

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the trauma that we go through. He can heal us

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and comfort us through whatever it is we're going through.

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Speaker 4: He is so good and so amazing and you can

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do anything.

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Speaker 6: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Well, we want to thank you guys for joining us

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