If you have a regular news source, it's only natural that you'll hear an interesting story or two only to have it disappear quickly. Never more has this been the case with me before now. Around APRIL 21, a stroller containing a toddler was blown into Lake Michigan while his helpless, horrified grandfather could do nothing more than jump in the frigid water and scream for help. Police divers were a short distance away at our Midway Airport and had him out within minutes, but in the confusion of the shock, the man's broken English (He's Serbian), etc. the boy was under water for 15 min.  Everybody knows that death occurs after about 3 min. underwater, and significant brain damage before that.  Not everybody knows that that rule doesn't always apply if the accident involves children and frigid water. I don't know all the scientific details, but the sudden shock of the cold water creates a mini-hibernation based on stimulating the dive-reflex or something like that.

You've probably guessed that the boy survived. He was taken to a top hospital that has well-documented success treating that kind of accident. A family friend two days later said that he was doing 'better'. The family didn't want any other information given out. I know that hospitals in the u.s. have much stricter privacy laws, but somebody must know something. I am tempted to e-mail the two writers of the main article in our major paper, or e-mail a newscaster that I like from the radio station I listen to all the time. I know they would say that they would cover it if they could, blah blah blah. I think everybody who heard the story is waiting for a happy ending. I wonder how many people remember? It was a major story. I google it looking for more info and see that newspapers across the u.s. had picked up the story. I think I will e-mail that newscaster.