Experimental treatment saves 16-month-old boy who nearly drowned in tub
Bronson Staker is a typical 18-month-old — which is to say, he wasn’t interested in what Mom and Dad were talking about with a stranger. Bronson was far more interested in fussing and squirming and grabbing his father’s cell phone and pretending to talk into it and doing all the delightful things that toddlers do. None of this would be remarkable except for one fact: Six weeks ago, Bronson was dead. That is not an overstatement. Bronson is not a a child who briefly lost consciousness after choking on a piece of candy. There’s no other way to describe his condition other than that one uncompromising word: dead... Read the full story. Related stories: