10-year-old Girl Dies On Michigan Waterslide

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The dream that a 2-year-old Michigan girl cherished on a high-speed water slide ended in tragedy. The dizzying experience caused little London Eisenbeis, just 10 years old, to die after suffering a cardiac arrest due to "emotion".

The attraction - located in the Zehnder's Splash Village water park, in Frankenmuth, in the mentioned state - is extremely popular and consists of a 273-foot high slide that includes a 360-degree curve as part of the journey. Those who board it must enter a capsule where, after crossing their arms, they are launched in a 40-foot free fall. In total, the journey is completed in 6.9 seconds, reaching high speeds.

The girl and her family visited the aforementioned park on February 18, 2018 and immediately the minor went to the slide, according to Tina, the minor's mother, to the digital edition of the British newspaper The Sun.

According to the woman, her daughter suffered from a rare heart condition called long QT syndrome (LQTL) that was unknown to the family.

"London looked at his dad, gave him the [OK] sign with his thumbs and smiled," his mother recalled. “She went down the slide and came out of it with cardiac arrest. The emotion altered her rhythm."

The minor's doctors explained that the little girl suffered serious brain damage due to lack of oxygen after the cardiac arrest she suffered in the park.

"She fought for 9 days in the hospital … and then she earned her angel wings," explained her mother. "I would have taken her home with everything and brain damage, but I feel better that she made that decision for us."

According to the Spanish Journal of Cardiology, this disease is caused by a genetic mutation and predisposes to sudden death from malignant ventricular arrhythmias.

Since the tragedy, the girl's parents, Jerry and Tina, and their other daughter, Eden, have dedicated themselves to raising awareness of this evil and the importance of using a defibrillator, something that could have saved London's life, as they assure.

"This is a condition for which there are no signs, it just collapsed," said the 44-year-old woman. "You never know when it's going to happen. You never think it is something that will happen to you and this is a club that no one would want to join.”