Ayda Kenny was found floating in a lake in Merseyside, England, after she slipped away from her grandma but somehow she survived

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Ayda Kenny who fell into a lake in Thatto Heath St Helens in April 2024

A three year old girl, Ayda Kenny, who is autistic and non-verbal, narrowly escaped death in what’s being called ‘a miracle’.

In April 2024, Ayda wandered away from her grandmother and ended up falling into a lake in Thatto Heath, Merseyside, England.

She was found ‘unresponsive’ by police officers.

The police initiated CPR and shortly after, the North West Ambulance Service and specialist crews from the North West Air Ambulance Charity arrived on the scene.

Ayda was resuscitated, put into an induced coma, and rushed to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

Ayda’s mom, Alex Price, recounted the terrifying ordeal: “I got a call from my neighbor, and she said, ‘Alex, Ayda’s in trouble.’

My heart just dropped. When I got home, the police were stopping cars, checking the trunks of people’s cars, thinking she’d been abducted.

The news comes as a tragic tale of teenage girls found at the bottom of a reservoir has emerged.

“Then I found out she’d been pulled from the lake. She was face down, submerged.

Her diaper had expanded and kept her afloat. I just kept praying, ‘Please let her survive this by some miracle.’”, reports the Liverpool Echo.

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Ayda recovered from her ordeal completely unscathed in what has been hailed a miracle

“I was screaming, ‘Please let me get to my little girl.’ I just needed to hold her.

But they kept saying, ‘You need to let them work on her.’ I knew it was bad. If there was hope, they’d have given me something to hold onto.”

At the scene, the air ambulance crew treated Ayda as her condition was critical and she’d suffered a cardiac arrest.

Rob Evans, a critical care paramedic who treated Ayda at the scene said: “We were faced with a child who had drowned, been resuscitated from cardiac arrest, and now had a pulse but was being ventilated.

Clinically, we had to stabilize Ayda as best we could. Preparing for a safe pre-hospital anesthetic was critical.

Given how ill she was at the time, just surviving was remarkable.”

Once Ayda was stabilized, she was rushed to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, where Alex was informed her daughter had likely endured up to 20 minutes of brain oxygen deprivation.

The mom said: “She had weeds in her hair, mud all over her, and smelled like pond water.

I was just cleaning her eyes with saline and gauze. It felt like the only thing I could do.”

Following 48 hours of sedation, Ayda awakened, removing tubes and displaying no indicators of brain injury.

Alex continued: “She had died. She was dead when they pulled her out of the water, but they brought her back.

And now, by some miracle, she’s exactly the same little girl. She came out unscathed.”

Ayda’s experience serves as a compelling testament to the life-saving impact of the North West Air Ambulance Charity.

Now, Ayda’s mom, Alex, is getting ready to skydive on Saturday, September 20, to generate crucial funding for NWAA, the organization she credits with rescuing her daughter’s life.

Alex said: “I’m just so grateful. It’s an absolute miracle; it’s like winning the lottery. I can’t thank everyone enough.”