After spending the last 48 hours in the hospital and not showing signs of improvement, relatives made the difficult decision to let 3 year old Kashawnie Her pass away. She passed away Sunday at 3 am. Family members felt that taking her off life support at Children's Hospital was the only way to stop the little girl's suffering.
"Doctors say it's a 90% chance that she's not going to come back at all, so the best decision is just to let her go. We know she'll be up in heaven with god," said Jonah Heu, a family friend.
An accident at Avocado Lake on Thursday left Kashawnie brain dead. Rescue crews say she was swimming with family without a life jacket on and then vanished underwater for several minutes. CBS47 spoke to Victoria Callahan that day. She's a nurse who jumped into action and performed CPR on Kashawnie.
"It's nice to know I'm able to help anybody I can," Callahan said.
Saturday afternoon CPR class was held at Children's Hospital. Many members of the public signed up and took the initiative to learn this life saving skill.
"I saw my father do it and save a life, so I want to be able to do something like that too one day," said Jenna Saldate, a student.
Classes are fairly simple to complete: they take about 4 hours, cost around $25 and are offered several times a month.
"Every second you delay CPR that person's chance of survival diminishes. So more people trained means more lives could be saved," said Chris Grizzle, Life Support Instructor.
Kashawnie had an extra chance at survival thanks to CPR and one woman's knowledge of it.
"We just want to say thank you to her and all the staff of the hospitals and nurses that have been helping our family out,"
said Heu.
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