6 y o girl intestine sucked out by drain Suction!!

by **FireangelX** Sun 08 Jul 2007, 3:40 am

MINNEAPOLIS -- A 6-year-old girl from Edina, Minn., survived after sitting over an open drain in a wading pool and having most of her small intestine sucked out of her body.

Abigail Taylor sat over an open drain hole in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club last Friday. According to a posting by her family on the Caring Bridge Web site, the drain's powerful suction tore out part of her intestinal tract. (The posting had been removed from the site as of this writing.)

According to WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, the girl's father, Scott Taylor, said the suction from the uncovered drain ripped a two-inch tear in her rectum and "basically disemboweled her by pulling out her small intestine, almost all of it."

Her mom said the girl somehow pulled herself off the drain and out of the pool before collapsing into the deep end of the regular pool.

"It's a medical miracle that she survived," said Abigail's father.

The girl was rushed to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. Doctors operated for several hours before addressing the family.

"I immediately fell to me knees," Scott Taylor said. "My initial reaction was she hadn't survived."

Abigail now has a permanent colostomy and will have to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life.

"That's how she'll receive all of her nutrition, based on the fact that her small intestines are gone. She can't process food," Scott Taylor said.

Scott Taylor said he's talking to the media to make sure other parents and pool owners are aware of the dangers lurking at the bottom of pools.

Doctors said Abigail will remain in the hospital for at least a couple of weeks.

The Consumer Products Safety Commission says "the suction from a pool drain can be so powerful that it can hold an adult under water, but most entrapment incidents involve children."