Looking back at the harrowing incident many years later, Jamie Lynn and her husband Jamie Watson still aren’t sure what led to Maddie’s sudden turn.
“We were watching her, and we still don’t quite know if she was dodging a dog or what it was,” she said. “She went in the water and me, my father-in-law and my husband ran as fast as we could to go jump in to get her out, but she was stuck under the ATV.”
After Maddie was airlifted to the hospital, she was in a coma for two days. And according to Jamie Lynn, her daughter’s state was so dire that a priest was even called in to administer last rites.
“He comes in, and she physically sits up in all her restraints and tubes,” Jamie Lynn recalled. “I’m screaming for the doctors, like, ‘Come in here now!’ Even the priest was like, ‘I’ve never seen anything like what’s happening.'”
“I knew she was in there and felt all of us praying,” she added. “We were given a miracle, and I don’t take it for granted.”