‘I’m not going to die today,’ Oklahoma teen kicked by horse survives traumatic heart bleed

TURPIN, Okla. (KFOR) – An Oklahoma teen was introduced again from the brink after being kicked by a horse so laborious it made him have a coronary heart assault.

“Paradoxically, my favourite animal occurs to be the horse,” mentioned Dalton Burton. 

Horses have been in Dalton Burton’s blood since he was a toddler.

The now-16-year-old has spent most of his life coaching, grooming, and professionally using horses.

His household owns a farm with greater than 50 horses.

“I used to be born into it. It was 16 years of dwelling round them and simply type of right here,” mentioned Burton. “It’s a chilled expertise being round them.”

However his final encounter with horses turned out to be something however calming. Burton was getting the horses able to be checked for viruses, and that’s when he acknowledged one horse turned uncontrollable.

“We had been simply type of attempting to nook and, you already know, get her calmed down a bit bit,” mentioned Burton.  “And I acquired whacked!”

The horse’s enraged kick despatched the teenager into traumatic cardiac arrest. Her foot landed proper over his coronary heart – severely bruising it and inflicting it to bleed.

“I believed she simply knocked the breath out of me,” mentioned Burton. “I used to be unaware of some other points occurring internally.” 

The teenager was flown to Wesley Youngsters’s Hospital in Wichita and brought immediately into surgical procedure.

Medical doctors eliminated greater than 300 milliliters of fluid from round his coronary heart.

“I do recall repeating the sentence, ‘I’m not going to die at this time,’ a number of occasions,” recalled Burton.

He spoke of his survival into existence – the decided teen was strolling two days after the tragedy.

“I assume I can go together with the primary rule of horse security that I ought to know after sixteen years. Don’t go behind the horse,” mentioned Burton. “It looks like some type of divine intervention, so would possibly as properly simply reside with that.” 

Dalton is predicted to be launched this week. He has to comply with the physician’s orders and keep away from horses for some time.

He has arrange a GoFundMe to assist pay for his hospital bills.