BOISE, Idaho - A hospital worker preparing a 22-month-old for a funeral home noticed the boy was breathing — more than an hour after he had been pronounced dead from drowning.
Logan Pinto apparently wandered away from his baby sitter Thursday and fell into a canal near his home in Rexburg, about 275 miles east of Boise. He was submerged for nearly 30 minutes before police found him a half-mile downstream, said Rexburg police Capt. Randy Lewis.
Though an officer gave him CPR and emergency workers did everything they could to revive him, Lewis said, the boy was pronounced dead when it appeared the effort had failed. After giving the boy’s mother and stepfather — Debra and Joe Gould — some time to say goodbye, Madison Memorial Hospital nurse Mary Zollinger began to prepare Logan’s body for the funeral home.
But when she looked at the boy, she noticed his chest was slightly moving and realized that Logan was alive.
The boy was flown to Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, where he was listed in critical condition Friday. Late Thursday, he was breathing on his own and his color had returned, but he was placed back on a respirator Friday, Lewis said.
“I’m just amazed and overwhelmed with what took place,” Lewis said. “They aggressively worked on him for quite a bit of time, and of course it’s a bad situation when you have to let the parents know that their son has passed away.”
But despair turned to joy when emergency workers learned the boy was alive.
“It’s called divine intervention, I think. I was dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe it hardly, especially after leaving there and seeing what had transpired,” Lewis said. “I don’t know how to explain it. It’s joyous and relieving.”
that's odd.. i heard a story about a man who died and was put into those freezers to preseve his body. when the people took him out of the freezer 3 days later to prepare his body he started blinking and now he's normal
I remember hearing about this people coming back to life thing when i was younger. Then when my grandmom died of cancer, i thought she had a chance of coming back and i prayed she would.
an interesting fact, im not sure if its true, i think it is.
the saying "saved by the bell" comes from people actually being saved by the bell.
100s years ago, people used to be sometimes acidently buried alive.
so to counteract this, they tied a rope to a limb, then atached it to a bell. "saved by the bell"
some coffins were dug up a few years back(in france i believe), the coffins were buried before the bells were attached, and on the coffin lids, were scratches from where the person came back to life and realised there situation
I think that when they think someones dead that they should slit thier throat just to be sure. Even if they were still alive and then died when thier throats were slit it's still better then being buried alive. Being buried alive's my worst fear.
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Boy starts breathing as hes prepared for funeral
May 28th, 2004 09:42 PM
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