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A 6 year old girl from Monett is lucky to be alive after she fell through an icy pond
back in January. Now she's having to learn how to do everyday activities again.
Miranda Myddleton
is like many other 6 year old kids her age. She likes her toys. She likes playing outside
and she is a little shy. It was her curiosity, though, that got her into trouble and left
her in a coma for four days.
Miranda doesn't remember anything about falling in the pond. In January, her mother Christina
heard words no parent ever wants to hear: "your daughter is drowning."
"She saw her, jumped in the pond," Miranda's grandmother Dolores Scheuerman said, "well
it was icy so she had to break it with her body to get to it"
"I was in so much shock," Miranda's mother Christina Marshall explained, "I didn't even
feel the coldness in the water. I didn't feel anything."
Miranda went behind her house with her brother in the dead of winter to a pond not familiar
to the family. "We [were] looking all over for them," Dolores said, "we couldn't imagine
where they went to."
Little Miranda was frozen. Despite efforts from her neighbor who was performing CPR,
it wasn't looking good.
She was taken to the hospital in Monett and after more than 4 hours her body had warmed
up and they got a pulse. She was airlifted to Springfield, where her diagnosis continued
to to drift in the wrong direction.
"They didn't think she was going to make it," Christina recalled, "they said she'd have
brain damage."
Her family prayed and hoped. Her grandfather even wrote a song for her to play in church.
Miranda was in a coma for four days. Suddenly, she just woke up.
"She told us that angels took her and helped her in their arms," Dolores said.
Ever since that day, Miranda has had an uphill battle. She had to learn how to walk again
and still does not have full function in either hand. It makes everyday events a little more
difficult, even opening a stick of gum.
Considering her family was told Miranda wouldn't make it through the coma, they are counting
their blessings.
Miranda has a long road ahead of her. She does go to therapy and has to wear braces
on her legs, but she also had to take medicine for seizures and has to take medicine that
prevents fluid from going into her lungs.
It is a lot for a 6 year old to handle, but if her progress from January to now is any
indication they hope she continues to beat expectations.
As of right now, doctors hope she will start getting more function in her hands, if not
full function, in 6 months to a year.