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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 7:58 a.m. MT, Thurs., June. 5, 2008
The tragic death of a South Carolina 10-year-old more than an hour after he had gone swimming has focused a spotlight on the little-known phenomenon called “dry drowning” — and warning signs that every parent should be aware of.
“I’ve never known a child could walk around, talk, speak and their lungs be filled with water,” Cassandra Jackson told NBC News in a story broadcast Thursday on TODAY.
On Sunday, Jackson had taken her son, Johnny, to a pool near their home in Goose Creek, S.C. It was the first time he’d ever gone swimming — and, tragically, it would be his last.
</div></div> rest of it here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24982210/from/ET/
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 7:58 a.m. MT, Thurs., June. 5, 2008
The tragic death of a South Carolina 10-year-old more than an hour after he had gone swimming has focused a spotlight on the little-known phenomenon called “dry drowning” — and warning signs that every parent should be aware of.
“I’ve never known a child could walk around, talk, speak and their lungs be filled with water,” Cassandra Jackson told NBC News in a story broadcast Thursday on TODAY.
On Sunday, Jackson had taken her son, Johnny, to a pool near their home in Goose Creek, S.C. It was the first time he’d ever gone swimming — and, tragically, it would be his last.
</div></div> rest of it here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24982210/from/ET/
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