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Lindsay Dewey Mourns Loss of 22-Month-Old Son After Devastating Accident
According to Lindsay Dewey, her 22-month-old son Reed passed away after a terrible accident involving an unguarded mirror in their house.
The Idaho-based blogger on parenting and housework talked candidly with her Instagram followers about the February event that killed her youngest child.
The mother of three asserts that Reed was engaged in play with a suction cup dish at the time of the disaster. Apparently he had been pulling it back and forth and sticking it on a big mirror. The mirror finally fell on him as a result of the repetitive action.
“To make a long story short, apparently Reed had one of his suction cup bowls and stuck it on the mirror and was pulling it ‘back and forth’ to pry it off (we’re assuming) and he pulled the mirror down on himself,” Dewey explained on Instagram. “I never even heard him playing by/with the mirror — until I heard it fall and then within 5 seconds I lifted it off of him.”
Dewey was about ten feet away when the accident occurred, making dinner. At first, she thought her son was still playing with magnetic tiles in another area of the home.
“Heavy duty,” she said, referring to the mirror’s previous stability on a chair that had been moved just before the incident to clean up after the family dog.
“When it initially happened, I was so confused as to HOW it happened,” she wrote. “There is no way our kids are strong enough to move it, let alone pull it down on themselves. And we knew that so the urgency to anchor it wasn’t there. It seemed impossible for it to just randomly fall down for no reason considering its placement and weight. But when I picked it up and leaned it back on the wall, I noticed his bowl was stuck to it … I figured out EXACTLY how it happened.”
Reed had a significant traumatic brain damage in addition to a shattered skull. He had some early breathing and pupil response symptoms before being taken to the hospital and put in a coma, but swelling eventually rendered his brain inoperable. Days later, according to Dewey, physicians concluded he was brain dead.
“Never did we expect that it would be so serious that he wouldn’t survive it,” she said.
In the wake of his death, Reed became an organ donor. Dewey wrote, “I’ve been telling myself ‘If he doesn’t get his miracle, he will become one’ and that’s the only thing that’s getting me through. Even though his wasn’t saved, he is saving lives.”
“The worst day of our lives became the best day of someone else’s and for that I will forever be grateful for our little hero baby. You’re someone’s miracle, Reed Michael. 5 little kids miracle to be exact. I couldn’t stop thinking about the families who got the best call of their life, their answered prayer,” she added.
Dewey highlighted that the erroneous sense of safety was exacerbated by the fact that the mirror had not been intended to be fastened or secured. The absence of the chair in front of the mirror, which her family always kept there for stability, she added, was due to recent cleaning.
“There were so many details that led up to this being a perfect storm. All in all, just a tragic unexpected accident. That we can never take back,” she wrote.
While she acknowledged fears of backlash from strangers, Dewey said she decided to share the painful story to potentially help other families. “We both are still in complete shock that this is what took our baby from us. We’re only sharing this because we don’t want this happening to anybody,” she said.
With numerous safety precautions already in place, including anchors on furniture and kid locks on windows, doors, gates, and outlets, Dewey referred to herself as a “protective mom.” This one mistake, however, had disastrous results.
“Mommy misses you so badly and I’m so sorry this happened to you my perfect baby boy,” she wrote.
All proceeds from the “Remembering Reed” clothing collection, which Little Hunters Wife has introduced since the tragedy, will be used to support Dewey and her husband Eric.
In her grief, Dewey rejected the notion of becoming a public figure. “I’m just your average mama of three, homemaker, fire wife, who is obsessed with her family, living in Idaho,” she wrote. “To paint the picture that I’m just another self-centered influencer is appalling.”
We are dedicating this post to this lovely boy and the memory of his life.
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