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It’s an amazing story that a toddler’s family is calling a ‘Thanksgiving miracle’. The little girl who fell from a window Monday is going to be okay. But when you watch the video it’s hard to believe. Pay close attention to the top right corner of your screen.
You’ll see a white object, a dog running, and then suddenly a girl falls from above into the stairwell below. When we zoom in to the security video it gives you a better idea of just how rough that fall is. But the three-year old is not only going to be okay, she’s back home with little more than a bruise.
This is three-year old Alex Wolters lying in the emergency department. Her neck is braced and doctors were worried she might have head injuries or suffered a broken neck.
Little Alex had fallen out her bedroom window and landed directly on concrete.
Sherry Kay, Alex’s mother: “She was standing up here talking to the dog outside. And she leaned to far forward. And the screen that was here let go. And she went over and all the way down.”
This surveillance video shows Alex falling out the window and into the basement stairwell — a distance of about 5 metres.
Her mother Sherry was terrified. She jumped a high gate and ran back to where Alex was lying.
Sherry Kay: “She wasn’t unconscious. But she wasn’t communicating like she normally did. She was whimpering a little but she wouldn’t stand up. She said her head hurt.”
An air ambulance was standing by here at St. Catharines General just in case Alex needed to be rushed to McMaster. She was kept overnight but doctors told her parents she was well enough to go home.”
Alex showed us her only injury. A bruise on her arm. She says she was just looking at Stella the dog.
Lauran: “And then what happened?” Alex: “I fell.”
Sherry says Alex never plays around the window. and has some advice for parents.
Sherry Kay: “Lock your children’s windows for sure and don’t let them play in the bedroom by a window at all.”
Looking at Alex zip around her driveway on her scooter with a big smile on her face, it’s hard to believe she hit concrete from a height of 5 metres and the only injury she has is a bruise.
Sherry Kay: “It’s a miracle for sure. She definitely has some angels out there for sure.”
The family moved into the Sherman Drive neighbourhood just a few weeks ago. Little Alex says, given what happened to her, she won’t be talking to the dog through the window ever again.
