11GoFundMe page was created
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A page titled as GoFundMe was created in order to help Elianna’s family in covering the expenses of medical treatment. It was created by Grace’s colleague Courtney in order to help Grace and her family as they were needed to pay huge amount of hospital bills after the unfortunate incident.
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12Reach of Grace’s Facebook post
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Undoubtedly, the Facebook post of Grace had a great effect and she received good wishes from all over the world for Elianna. Till now, the post has received more than 600 comments with about 42K reactions over 112K shares. Any post which makes people aware about such diseases has to be appreciated and Grace deserves a lot of praise for that.
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13Donations and gifts
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A good number of gifts were sent for Elianna along with the donation when she was in the hospital, getting treated for the dry drowning and this photo clearly shows how happy she was after receiving those gifts. An amount of around $8338 has been received as donation by 246 people.
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14Elianna’s family is still spreading awareness
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Now Elianna is perfectly fine but her family is spreading awareness about dry drowning till the date. In the month of May, they shot a 3-minute video with the reporters of Today Show, which was about Elianna’s story and the symptoms of dry drowning. There is no doubt that little Elianna is a star now and we really want that her story reaches maximum audiences so that no one suffers from dry drowning.
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15A reminder for everyone
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The symptoms of dry drowning are extreme sleepiness, continuous coughing, trouble in breathing, vomiting and unusual change in behavior. The good part about this disease is that such incidents are very rare but it can’t be ruled out that they can happen as in the case of Elianna. So better be prepared and alert as well as spread the information.
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