On Easter Sunday, a British family celebrated the two-year anniversary of their “Easter miracle.”
Dylan Askin, then two years old, surprisingly awoke from a coma one day after being taken off life support on Easter Sunday, 2016.
“I am not particularly religious, but I did believe it was a miracle,” Dylan’s mother, Kerry Askin, told the Daily Mail.
Dylan, who is four years old, has become the face of CLIC Sargent, a charity that assists families with cancer-stricken children.
After praising CLIC Sargent for assisting them while Dylan was ill, the family is now sponsoring an Easter campaign for the organization.
Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), a rare condition that damages the lungs, nearly killed him two years ago.
Dylan was transported to the hospital on Christmas Day, 2015, after experiencing respiratory difficulties. Doctors determined that the small boy’s lungs were coated in cysts and that he had a collapsed lung.
He was diagnosed with LCH, but after contracting pneumonia, his condition worsened. Dylan’s parents were ready to say farewell to their son, who had taken a turn for the worse, on Good Friday in 2016.
Kerry Askin told the charity that “on Good Friday they informed us things were looking dark and that we weren’t going to get him back.” “All of the machines’ settings were at their highest, and he was still having trouble.” We got him baptized, and his entire family, including his older brother, came from all around to say their goodbyes.”
The physicians began gradually removing the youngster from life support the next day, but the tiny boy’s heart rate returned to normal.
Kerry Askin explained, “We just said, ‘Stop; there is still fight in him.'” “Then his oxygen levels began to rise, and he began to return to us.” By Easter Sunday, he had stabilized to the point that I felt safe enough to lie down. “I was convinced he was our Easter miracle,” I said.
She recalled, “When we told our eldest, he exclaimed, ‘He’s like Jesus,’ because he had been learning about it in school.”
Dylan was able to go home a month after waking up and complete chemotherapy until July 2017. His relatives stated that he is content and that he is Logan’s older brother.
Kerry Askin remarked, “I was firm in my view that Dylan was our Easter miracle.”