‘God got the last say’
A 4-year-old boy in Denver, abruptly taken ill and hospitalized, lost his heartbeat for 14 hours before, on its own, it started beating again, leaving doctors without an explanation.
But his father, Dominique McDaniel, had the answer: “God got the last say.”
A report from Denver’s KDVR broadcast outlet confirmed the saga is not yet over, as the child, Carter McDaniel, will remain hospitalized for some time yet.
But Dr. Aline Maddux, an associate professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Colorado, confirmed, “His heart just restarted. That was really an incredible thing that occurred.”
Maddux earlier had said, “His heart stopped beating. We tried to revive it, and there was fear that he might not survive this.”
The child woke up with a fever and that soon progressed to chills, frequent urination, extreme thirst and lethargy, the report said.
His breathing because unstable and his mother, Destiny Anderson, rushed him to the ER.
She said, “I had to carry him in because he just wasn’t moving. His mouth was turning blue and his eyes were sinking in.”
“They’re saying your son’s not breathing, one, two, three — that’s all I remember hearing,” McDaniel said.
Nurses grabbed him, but he soon was in cardiac arrest.