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Chiropractor plans tournament to aid brain injury patient

 
By Ann Weaver | Published: May 11, 2006   

CHOCTAW - When Annie Pettigrew learned about the danger of small children drowning in toilets, she installed latches on her home's bathroom doors to keep her daughter Isabelle safe.

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11 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln Park Golf Course in Oklahoma City.

Proceeds will help the family of Isabelle Pettigrew with medical expenses.

For more information, call Heath Oldham at 769-1900.

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Pettigrew said despite her zealous precautions, the 2-year-old nearly drowned in her home's most obvious hazard -- the backyard swimming pool.

May 16, 2005, Isabelle was pulled from the water, unresponsive and not breathing. She had been under water for as long as three minutes, and it took emergency medical technicians an additional 19 minutes to restore her pulse, Pettigrew said.

Isabelle's brain was deprived of oxygen so long that physicians told her parents she likely would die. The following day, Isabelle opened her eyes.

Since then, she and her family have been working to reverse the damage to her brain cells. "We have said from the beginning that if Isabelle is fighting, then we're going to fight with her," Annie Pettigrew said.

Isabelle's weekly regimen includes occupational therapy and physical therapy, and sometimes therapy on horseback. She's also had hyperbaric chamber treatment to give her brain more oxygen and Botox injections to relax her arms, legs and feet.

Her chiropractor, Heath Oldham, said he sees progress with every visit.

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