![]() Over $63,000 has been raised so far to help the Currat family cover medical and funeral costs. They were walls apart for two days in the final journey of Simon's life. She suffered a sustained seizure at home on the same day Simon was bitten and was taken to the same hospital her brother was admitted. She was born prematurely due to being in distress in utero and suffered a brain injury that left her blind, non-verbal and tube fed from birth. Simon was a loving brother to his older 8-year-old sister who uses a wheelchair. The Currat family is no stranger to tragic medical events. The Currats said they not only lost a wonderful son, but their other three children lost a best friend, and the world lost a beautiful, faith-filled soul. Simon passed peacefully in his parents’ arms on July 10. And if God wanted to take him, he could." "If God wanted to do a miracle, he could. ![]() ![]() "The doctors weren’t going to be able to heal him, and he was in God’s hands," Simon’s mother cried. Multiple tests would determine there was no life left in his brain, and Simon’s family made the ultimate and painful decision. "I never gave up on my belief that God could do a miracle, and that God can bring him back." "No one ever really gave us any hope that they thought he would survive," Currat said. Transferred by helicopter, again, Simon would spend his finals days at the Children’s Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, where dialysis was underway. Simon was now in complete kidney failure, and the hospital said they could not help treat him. "At that point, they had even already told us that after suffering that amount of cardiac arrest, he probably wouldn’t survive," Currat said. Parents Nic and Lindsey have four kids Anna (8), Simon (6), Renee (3) and Victor (10 months).Īn air ambulance transferred him to Children’s Hospital Colorado in Colorado Springs, but there was little to no improvement while he was on life support. The Currat family lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Simon’s vitals would continue to drop as his situation turned dire hours after the bite. Simon was in cardiac arrest for over 20 minutes as first responders worked to resuscitate him.ĭoctors treated him with anti-venom and blood products, all while in a coma. "You could have been driving in those 10 minutes instead of repeatedly trying to intubate him and not being successful." "Looking back, that was a huge failure," Currat said. Simon’s breathing turned shallow as paramedics worked to intubate him before leaving for the hospital. A dog walker would soon rush to their aid and call 911, staying with them until help arrived. With his son wrapped in his arms, the father and daughter ran through the field, hoping over a barbwire fence to the nearest residential neighborhood, screaming for help. No one else was on the trail, and he could not call for help because he had left his phone at home. Simon’s father was left helpless as he rushed to his son’s aid. "Rattlesnake!" he yelled in fear back to his dad. On this particular adventure, Simon decided to run ahead to look at a mile marker sign on the trail they were exploring during a stop for water. "It’s rugged, and Simon had told my husband that he loved it because it was like a video game only in real life," Currat said. Simon loved to explore the wilderness area with his dad as they could off-road the dirty, narrow paths dodging branches to the face and splashing in the occasional puddle. He would tag along with his father, who was carting Simon’s 3-year-old sister in a bike seat across the Bluestem Prairie Open Space in Colorado Springs. The adventurous second-born of four set out on July 5 for a late afternoon bicycle ride after dinner. ![]() And he loved to plant fruit in the yard, hoping that someday it would grow into abundant trees.īut this world of creativity and creation would be short-lived following a run-in with a rattlesnake, sending him into cardiac arrest and leaving him in a coma. He sometimes used old gutters as waterways or tracks for his Hot Wheels. His backyard was his workshop, as his imagination would run as wild as his energy. Simon was like most typical kids his age. "He was proud of all those things," his mother vividly remembers. Nic and Lindsey Currat tragically lost their 6-year-old son, Simon, to a snake bite, which sent him into cardiac arrest and left him in a coma.
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