A Texas teen tragically died after being discovered unresponsive at cheer camp.
Katy resident Callie Marie Mitchell, 16, was at Texas A&M College final month when she skilled an surprising medical emergency, prompting one among her camp coaches to carry out CPR on her, native media outlet KHOU reported.
Callie headed to cheer camp “tremendous excited” on July 24, however her mom, Michelle Donahue, advised KHOU that after she arrived, she and Callie’s father, Scott Donahue, obtained a regarding telephone name from one among her coaches.
“She stated, ‘Hey, does Callie have an issue waking up within the morning?’ And I stated, ‘No, by no means,’” Michelle Donahue recalled to the outlet.
After talking on the telephone together with her coach, Callie’s dad and mom drove to the college, the place they have been advised that the identical coach had administered CPR to their daughter after discovering her unresponsive.
Callie was airlifted to Texas Kids’s Hospital in Houston. She died every week in a while Aug. 1, the outlet reported.
Scott Donahue advised KHOU that Callie might have died because of “a cardiac arrest that was brought on by Lengthy QT syndrome.”
Lengthy QT syndrome (LQTS) is a sort of conduction dysfunction that impacts {the electrical} system that controls your heartbeat, in response to the Nationwide Coronary heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Signs of LQTS typically begin throughout childhood, and will trigger signs reminiscent of fainting, noisy gasping whereas sleeping and seizures.
Callie’s dad and mom are actually thanking the coach for maintaining her alive lengthy sufficient for them to say goodbye to their daughter, whom Michelle Donahue stated “was like sunshine.”
“If it wasn’t for [Coach] Eberly, we’d have by no means had the possibility to say goodbye,” stated Michelle Donahue of her daughter, who first began cheering at age 2.
“[She] all the time wished to be a pal to anybody and everybody,” Callie’s father added.
Callie’s dad and mom are urging different dad and mom to have their kids bear an electrocardiogram (EKG) to verify their hearts.
“For every other dad and mom on the market, they do physicals yearly…EKGs will not be a part of a bodily…get an EKG,” Scott stated.