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[Narrator] July 4th, 2020, Blake Wilson

and his wife, Tori, werecelebrating at her parents' house.

Their three-year-old daughter, Lorelei,

was swimming in the poolwith family and friends.

- She had never takenswimming lessons before

so we always relied onfloaties while she was

in there just because of her age,

but she's always been supercomfortable being in the water.

- It was a normal day,but she knew that she had

to have her floaties on.

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- [Narrator] While everyonetook a break for lunch,

Lorelei sneaked back to the pool unnoticed

without her floats on.

Sometime later, one ofthe kids discovered her

in the water, then ranto get Grandpa Mark.

- He said somebody's already in the pool.

And as soon as he said it,I knew it had to be her.

- I'd only been inside a few minutes

before my oldest came in and said that

Lorelei was in the pool.

- When I got to the topstep, I could see her laying

on the bottom of the pool,and my heart just broke.

- [Narrator] Mark quickly jumped in

and pulled Lorelei from the pool.

She wasn't breathing and was unresponsive.

- Her lips and aroundher eyes was dark blue,

her face, not as blue as, you know,

around her lips and eyes,but it was real scary.

I thought she was gone.

- I was petrified.

I felt helpless, I didn't know what to do.

It's a very, very scary feeling.

- I mean, I was brokenat that moment, that was,

I was staring at mybaby girl who was blue.

- We've had CPR training,so we knew what to do,

but I got her on her sideand stretched her arm out,

and everything they tell you to do.

- At that point, everythingwas outside of my control,

but the one thing thatI could do was pray.

- We all prayedconstantly, and just again,

just panic and fear.

I didn't know what was gonna happen.

- I tapped her on the backmaybe three or four times

and by the grace of God,she just, she took a breath.

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- [Narrator] Lorelei was breathing,

but remained unresponsivewhen she arrived at the ER.

Dr. Majou and his staff atGeorgetown Memorial Hospital

were the first to treat her.

- Lorelei was in criticalcondition when she came in

and she was in respiratory distress.

Her vital signs were somewhat unstable

as far as her respiratory condition.

- [Narrator] A chestx-ray revealed that one

of Lorelei's lungs was full of fluid.

Her family and hospital staffknew she needed a miracle.

- The doctors and the nurses,

they were praying right there with us.

Everyone was, wantedthis positive outcome.

- I called in her family,I wanted them to pray,

I wanted all of hersupportive staff to be there

to be able to pray forher and with her parents

to let them know that they're loved

and you know, God is here.

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- [Narrator] Lorelei was airlifted

to Medical University, South Carolina

due to the severity ofher respiratory condition.

Amazingly, the next x-ray showed the fluid

in her lung had vanished.

- When we got there and they took x-rays

of their own there, wediscovered that there was,

the fluid was not in herright lung at that point.

I believe, deep down, that that was God.

- [Narrator] Still, Dr. ElizabethMac at MUSC was troubled

by the lack of oxygen to Lorelei's organs.

- She was in some respiratory distress.

Her lab work was concerningfor an elevated acid level

in her blood, meaning that her organs,

for a period of time, didn't get

enough oxygen or blood flow.

- We were praying and hopingthat there would not be

any brain damage or anypermanent damage done.

- [Narrator] That night whilemost people were watching

4th of July fireworks, Tori and Blake were

carefully watching theirlittle girl in the hospital.

- I was concerned just because she

had not fully woken up yet,and said anything to us.

She would kind of rouse up a little bit,

but she had still neverfully opened her eyes.

I can remember me and my husband

would watch the monitor like a hawk.

They had told us what heroxygen level needed to stay at.

- [Narrator] For over 30hours, the Wilsons prayed

and waited, then theyheard something wonderful.

- At about two o'clock thatSunday morning, she woke up

and she turned and she lookedat me and she said, mama.

And I went over thereto her and it's like,

it's like nothing happened, at all.

She was talking just completely normal,

and she, she remembered what had happened,

she knew what happened.

- She told us that she snuckup on the deck, really quiet,

and she held her fingerover her mouth and tiptoed,

and that she held her nose and jumped in.

- She asked me, she said, can we go back

to Mimi, Mimi and Big Daddy'shouse and go swimming?

And I remember saying no, we're not going

swimming any time soon.

- [Narrator] Lorelei made a full recovery.

The Wilsons say they are grateful to God

for watching over theirdaughter and will always

remember His faithfulnessevery 4th of July.

- Oh it's nothing but the Lord.

I mean, like I said, all, He did it all.

All I did was pull her out the water.

He took care of everything else.

- And they told us that we were very,

very lucky that day because a lot

of the cases don't turn out that way.

They considered her accidenta near-drowning accident.

And just for her to come out of that

and not have any permanent damage at all,

there's no doubt in my mind that

that was God looking out for her.

- The 4th of July, it's acelebration of life, now.

You know, we were not promisedthe outcome that we got,

but we prayed for it, and we received it.