Local law enforcement comes to young boy’s rescue
By Ashleigh Plemper
Farmer Staff Writer
After Mickayla Coleman brought her premature son, Brady, home from an extended stay in the hospital due to his early entry into the world, she hoped it would be the last hardship he’d encounter. Unavoidably, one of her worst fears would be brought back to life when her son’s breathing became labored three years later on Nov. 30, Coleman was forced to face her worst nightmare of witnessing her three-year-old son battle with retracted breathing.
“He woke up and started coughing and then started throwing up. All of a sudden, he got very lethargic and things went downhill,” she says. “He wouldn’t stand or walk and he was trying to gasp for air and crying.”
Instinctively reaching for her pulse oximeter to gauge his oxygen level, the read it gave her further emphasized that he was not in a good state.
“His oxygen was at 77, which is not good. Once you get to the 60s, you start turning blue,” says Coleman, of oxygen deprivation.