WESH News 2 shares the story of a teenage girl who had a close call with death, only it was a complete shock to her that anything was even wrong in the first place. She hopes to share her story to help raise awareness among those in similar situations to help prevent any life-threatening close calls.
Mackenzie Smoley, who is 14 years old, is super grateful to be able to do something as simple as making brownies with her mother, because her health was in grave danger just a few months ago.
It was on a random Saturday night when she took her electric scooter out for a spin and took quite a tumble.
“There was a racoon,” Mackenzie said, describing what caused her to fall off her scooter that fateful night. “I got scared and I tried to turn around and my scooter hit a curb and I fell.”
WESH News 2 notes that when Mackenzie fell that evening, her stomach slammed into the handlebars, knocking the wind out of her, but she didn’t appear to have any obvious injuries.
“I took a look, it was a little bit red,” Mackenzie’s mom, Sharon, explained. “And I thought, ‘you really just bumped yourself pretty good.’”
It wasn’t until Mackenzie was at school on Monday that she ended up at the school nurse due to stomach pain.
Sharon noted that her daughter almost looked like a different person at that point, as her eyes were darkened and her face was sunken in.
Sharon then took her daughter to the ER to be examined, and after a quick scan, the doctors discovered that Mackenzie had a kidney laceration with internal bleeding.
To learn how Mackenzie was treated and to hear Sharon’s message to parents out there, check out the video.
