The Media
This past summer, reports of dry or near drowning experiences kept many families away lakes, pools and the like. People.com, formerly known as People Magazine, interviewed one family to share their story. Despite warnings, the Delgado family were not deterred from having fun in the sun this past Memorial Day weekend at the Texas City Dike (“Boy-Four-Dry Drowning,” 2017). However, little did they realize that later in the following week, they would lose their 4-year old son Frankie to what the hospital could only explain as dry-drowning. The child’s father, also named Frankie, recalled a singular event in which “Baby Frankie” was briefly knocked down by a wave and may have inhaled some water into his lungs (“Boy-Four-Dry Drowning,”
This past summer, reports of dry or near drowning experiences kept many families away lakes, pools and the like. People.com, formerly known as People Magazine, interviewed one family to share their story. Despite warnings, the Delgado family were not deterred from having fun in the sun this past Memorial Day weekend at the Texas City Dike (“Boy-Four-Dry Drowning,” 2017). However, little did they realize that later in the following week, they would lose their 4-year old son Frankie to what the hospital could only explain as dry-drowning. The child’s father, also named Frankie, recalled a singular event in which “Baby Frankie” was briefly knocked down by a wave and may have inhaled some water into his lungs (“Boy-Four-Dry Drowning,”