‘He’s a miracle’: Community welcomes home 2-year-old boy months after near-drowning

The household of Cameron Taft obtained to satisfy and thank the firefighters and paramedics Saturday who saved the 2-year-old’s life.

After months within the hospital whereas receiving remedy for a extreme mind harm from a near-drowning, household, mates and the Bensenville neighborhood welcomed the younger boy house.

“They did not assume he’d be right here and he is proving all people mistaken, and I like it,” stated the boy’s mom, Maureen Taft.

The mind accidents he suffered, after someway sneaking out the again door and into the pool in October, ought to have been lethal, docs stated.

“It is most likely one of many worst issues that you simply assume you’ll ever need to undergo. Simply type of surreal,” stated the boy’s father, Chaz Taft.

It is a day they are going to always remember.

“He pulled him out. He began CPR with a few mates and the ambulance and paramedics and fireplace division have been right here in a matter of minutes,” Maureen recalled.

Those self same first responders have been there when Cameron lastly got here house.

“It is type of good to see him once more, to be trustworthy,” stated Trevor Goggin, with the Bensenville Fireplace Division. “I am actually glad when it is optimistic on the again finish of it. It is actually encouraging. It’s very nice to see a optimistic end result.”

Paramedics revived Cameron twice within the ambulance. He was then transferred to Lurie Youngsters’s Hospital, the place he fought for his life on a ventilator.

Then, the boy later spent two months in New Orleans on hyperbaric oxygen remedy earlier than going to Phoenix, Arizona, to endure a stem cell transplant.

All extraordinary measures to save lots of his life.

“What a fighter! He is the strongest dude I do know,” his mom stated.

His household stated his progress has been unbelievable.

Cameron’s physique tone has relaxed, his head and eyes are actually monitoring. He may also style and maintain his head up for 30 seconds.

The neighborhood now calling him a superhero.

“He is defying all odds. He is a miracle, he actually is,” Maureen stated. “Tremendous Cam? Tremendous Cam, yeah.”