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They\u2019d all been told to prepare for, and expect, the worst.<\/p>\n
Emergency room doctors in Colorado Springs told Holcomb and his wife, Monica, that the traumatic fracture of their daughter Jazmyn\u2019s skull had caused an out-of-control brain bleed. The toddler likely would not wake from her coma, might not even survive the flight to the hospital in the Denver suburbs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey told us to say our goodbyes,\u201d Kenny said, his voice quaking.<\/p>\n
There is no pain like that of a parent hearing such words.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Jazmyn Holcomb, 22, shows the X-ray of her cracked skull after falling from her two-story bedroom window when she was 2 years old. Doctors in Colorado Springs told her family she probably wouldn\u2019t survive the Flight for Life helicopter ride to Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, let alone have a normal life if she did. (Christian Murdock, The Gazette)<\/p>\n
But it was the horror, and then the blessing, that changed everything for the Holcomb family.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s 20 years, you know, and still every time I tell the story \u2026 it\u2019s such a weird thing to say, but I\u2019m glad this happened, you know,\u201d Kenny said. \u201cYou would never ever want something like that to happen to your children.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I can\u2019t imagine things now if it didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
An answered prayer<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t a story about why parents of young children should always double-check window stability and safety (they absolutely should, but is it too much to ask that a second-story window be toddler-proof?)\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is about a horrible accident that, by all accounts, should have been deadly but wasn\u2019t, and about how lives can be broken and rebuilt from a single moment.<\/p>\n
Some see it as divine grace, an answered prayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Holcombs certainly do.<\/p>\n
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Jazmyn Holcomb, 22, front left, is surrounded by her father Kenny, mother Monica, front right, and three of her five sisters at her parents\u2019 home in Peyton on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. Her three sisters pictured are Alana Holcomb, 23, on the far right; Kristina Oakley, 25, on the back left, and Isabella Holcomb, 17, in the middle. (Christian Murdock, The Gazette)<\/p>\n
On that day, Aug. 27, 2006, Monica had just finished bathing 2-year-old Jazmyn and her 3-year-old sister, Alana, at the home the family was renting in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n
The toddlers favored a carpeted window seat in front of a second-story bedroom window that overlooked the driveway leading into the garage, where they could watch the world, so headed there after the bath, as usual. It was a warm summer day, so the glass pane of the window panel had been slid open, like any other day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNext thing I remember, Alana came running downstairs \u2026 and said, \u2018Dad, Jazmyn fell,\u2019\u201d Kenny said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what she meant, so I went to go upstairs and she grabbed my hand very calmly and she said, \u2018No, she\u2019s outside.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite her young age at the time, Alana said she still recalls the sound of the screen window pushing free of its moorings, as well as what came after.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember watching her fall down and her body hitting the concrete,\u201d said Alana, now 23. \u201cI remember going to the hospital .. and crying .. and (how) I thought it was my fault.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jazmyn Holcomb, 22, has the words \u201cTalitha Cumi\u201d tattooed on her arm. It\u2019s an Aramaic phrase found in the Gospel of Mark where Jesus raises a young girl from the dead. Jesus took her by the hand and said the words, which mean \u201clittle girl, I say to you, get up.\u201d Twenty years after the tragedy that almost took her life, Holcomb is preparing to take the boards to become a radiologist so she can care for children who are in the same situation she was in. (Christian Murdock, The Gazette)<\/p>\n
As soon as Alana alerted her parents, Kenny dashed down the stairs to the basement level and opened the garage door to find his daughter\u2019s tiny body sprawled on the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ran over and I picked up her lifeless body, and I noticed the top of her head was flat. There\u2019s a big flat spot on the side of her head,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He and Monica loaded Jazmyn gently into their truck and gunned it to the nearest ER, figuring that was faster than waiting for an ambulance. During the trip, the toddler threw up and then stopped breathing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we walked to the hospital, we walked in with a lifeless 2-year-old little girl,\u201d Kenny said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Faith reenters the family\u2019s life<\/p>\n
He recalled how the nurses and doctors descended on them as soon as they walked in, instantly recognizing the critical nature of the injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey basically immediately gave her all of their attention, and they began to work on her. And they had gotten a heartbeat, but the second they got a heartbeat, she began to seize,\u201d he said. \u201cHer hair was still wet. She\u2019s still in a diaper from the bath \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said if she survives, she\u2019ll never be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A picture of Jazmyn Holcomb after she left the hospital in 2006 is taped to the Bible of her father, Kenny Holcomb. Her father gave her the Bible years later. (Christian Murdock, The Gazette)<\/p>\n
Kenny said he and the family were given \u201cfive minutes\u201d to say what they needed to say.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew she was going to die, so we went to leave and there was a chaplain there, a young woman,\u201d he said. \u201cShe was just so genuine and sincere and loving, so peaceful. She got us all to come and gather around, and she prayed for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Kenny and Monica were raised in the church, but as adults and parents faith hadn\u2019t played a defining role in their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Faith reentered their lives that day, said Kenny.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As he sat beside his father, Allen Holcomb, who had rushed to the hospital as soon as he got the news of his granddaughter\u2019s fall, Kenny\u2019s fear and desperation catalyzed into .. something else.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll I could think about was how she deserved a better life, how she deserved a better father, how my wife deserved a better husband,\u201d he said. \u201cFor the first time in my life, I cried out to Jesus and I meant it. And something \u2014 I didn\u2019t know exactly what was going on at the time \u2014 came in that truck. Something fell over me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt like for the first time I could breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n
A brush with death is often what it takes to realize the worth and fragility of a life you took for granted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A brush with death can also open the door to a faith you hadn\u2019t realized was there all along.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt like there was a weight lifted off of my shoulders,\u201d Kenny said. \u201cI told my dad, \u2018She\u2019s gonna be OK.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
An hour-by-hour miracle<\/p>\n
He was right, despite all seeming medical odds.<\/p>\n
Jazmyn survived the helicopter trip to Aurora, where brain scans showed that the devastating injuries she\u2019d presented with \u2014 and which were recorded by prior tests \u2014 were not as bad as previously thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first thing he (the doctor) said was, \u2018We did a brain scan, but it doesn\u2019t line up with what they sent to us from Colorado Springs. It actually looks like less blood, which doesn\u2019t make any sense,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Scans continued, each of which showed the injuries were healing at a remarkable rate, the damage less than it was.<\/p>\n
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Notations and highlighted Scriptures fill Jazmyn Holcomb\u2019s Bible that was given to her by her father, Kenny Holcomb. (Christian Murdock, The Gazette)<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time they checked it, there was less blood,\u201d Kenny said. \u201cThey put her in ICU, full watch. And every hour or so, they would check it again. Less blood. They couldn\u2019t make any sense why all this blood was leaving her brain so rapidly. They couldn\u2019t make any sense how she came out of that coma on her own.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t understand why her brain was functioning so well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad was confident he knew the reason.<\/p>\n
By Day Three, Jazmyn had been moved to a rehabilitation center with a plastic playground.<\/p>\n
By Day Four, she\u2019d been cleared to return home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe swelling had gone down from her brain,\u201d said Monica, whose family has since moved to a home in Peyton. \u201cThe only thing she had was a black eye.\u201d<\/p>\n
Half-a-year later, only those who had been there \u2014 or knew where to look for the scar on her head \u2014 had any inkling of what had happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI read the notes from my six-month follow-up, and they\u2019re, like, \u2018Patient is fine. She is running around the room,\u2019\u201d said Jazmyn, who\u2019s now 22.<\/p>\n
Dedicating her life to serving others<\/p>\n
Twenty years after the day that changed everything, she understands the science thoroughly enough to be in awe of what it can\u2019t neatly explain.<\/p>\n
She was a toddler. Her skull was soft.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was dead. Then she wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd look at this,\u201d she said, pulling up a copy of her cranial scans on her phone to show how the fracture closed over the course of the hours and days she was in the hospital.<\/p>\n
The only physical remnants of the near-tragedy that charted the course of her \u2014 and her family\u2019s \u2013 future are now a roughly three-inch scar, about as wide as a pinky finger, entirely hidden under her long, black hair.<\/p>\n
Its legacy, though, can be seen and felt \u2026 well, everywhere.<\/p>\n
Jazmyn is due to graduate from Casa Loma College in Aurora on Nov. 2, and days later will sit for her board exam to become a Radiologic Technologist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy plans are either CT or MRI,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whatever field she lands in, she said she hopes to work with children, work she got the chance to experience at a Colorado Springs hospital as part of the clinical training component of her studies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so common, when little kids come in \u2026 all of the technologists that I work with for school are so scared to X-ray a child,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re scared \u2026 because the kids are scared. But something comes over me, and I\u2019m, like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna help this kid.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
All those big machines are scary looking, but they\u2019re not monsters. They take pictures that \u201cmake you better.\u201d<\/p>\n
She tells them she understands their fears, because she\u2019s been there.<\/p>\n
And that sometimes, you\u2019ve got to travel through the darkest of places to get to the miracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miracles arise from the darkest of places, and that\u2019s where Kenny Holcomb found himself in late August, 2006…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-469383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}