by Michelle Stein posted in Parenting

Stories of dry drowning have been making rounds on social media and parenting blogs for years.
And it seems that one of these cautionary tales has managed to save the life of a 4-year-old little girl from Florida.
In a now-viral Facebook post, Lacey Grace explained that her daughter, Elianna Grace, was swimming at her grandparents' house in Sarasota, Florida, on April 14. She was playing with a pool noodle when it happened: She accidentally inhaled pool water, ABC News reported.
"As many many children do every day, she was blowing in one end and blowing water out the other," Grace wrote on Facebook. "By 100 percent freak accident, Elianna put her mouth to blow out at the same time someone blew in the other end, causing the water to shoot directly down her throat."
Elianna vomited immediately after the incident, but she seemed completely normal 30 minutes later  -- and throughout the following day even. By Monday, however, Elianna had developed a fever. And she ended up sleeping most of the day on Tuesday. Although Elianna went to school on Wednesday, Grace received a call that her daughter's fever had returned.
"I kept replaying that pool scene in my head and remembered reading a story last year about a Dad in Texas whose son passed away because he went untreated after inhaling a bunch of pool water. I wasn?t going to let that be Elianna," Grace wrote.
Grace took her daughter directly from school to u...