Miracle of ‘back from dead’ boy
DYLAN WINS FIGHT
A TODDLER fighting cancer “rose from the dead” as docs were about to switch off his life support.
Medics gave up hope for Dylan Askin, three, whose organs had failed while battling a rare cancer.
His distraught parents Kerry, 29, and Mike, 36, came in to baptise their son and kiss him goodbye.
Damage
But they were amazed when he suddenly wriggled in bed, showing his brain was still working. Doctors then kept him on the life support machine.
Within weeks he recovered and was back home playing with his brothers Bryce, six, and four-month-old Logan.
Kerry, of Shelton Lock, Derbys, said: “His temperature was fluctuating through the night and his heart rate was 200. We were just waiting for him to enter cardiac arrest.
“So we baptised him and said our final goodbyes. They turned his muscle sedatives off for the ventilator to be switched off. But when they did that he started struggling in his bed.
“We thought he was brain dead from oxygen starvation, so he shouldn’t have been moving. Then the consultant rushed in and said his blood tests showed his organs weren’t failing.
“We had told Bryce Dylan wasn’t coming back, so when we explained he said: ‘Oh, so he’s like Jesus then.’”
Kerry added: “It is a miracle he survived with no damage. It’s a case of wait and see, but the signs are good.”