A Kansas grandmother is lucky to be alive after being swept out to sea while attending a destination wedding in Mexico. The beautiful day quickly turned into a nightmare.
Speaking with KCTV, a Kansas grandmother, Barb Prier, explained that she went to Cabo San Lucas in June. On the morning of the wedding, Prier and her sister went to the beach for a walk. They walked along the water's edge.
"The waves didn't seem very rough," Barb recalled. "I was walking towards my sister. All of a sudden, it just broke loose, and a couple of the waves came in, one on top of each other."
The waves knocked them down and swept Barb out to sea. Her son, Tim, opened up about the incident. He said, "She was in the washing machine, so to speak — or the wave — just being pounded over and over and over again."
Kansas Grandmother Survives
"I did not want that visual if this was going to be the last time that I saw my mother," he said. "So, I just looked down and grabbed the people's hands around me, and we all started praying."
Doctors determined that the grandmother had a punctured lung, broken spine, head injury, and lungs filled with sand and shell fragments. She spent five days in the hospital before being transported back to the U.S.
"He said, 'Your mother will never walk again. She'll never talk again. She won't be able to feed herself. She won't be able to dress. She'll be in a nursing home,'" Barb told the outlet. "Well, there are five miracles right there."
She did manage to walk and talk again.
"It's truly a miracle that she's here with us," Tim said.
The wedding continued despite the tragedy. The family kept the tragedy secret from the couple until after the honeymoon.
"They knew I wouldn't want the wedding to stop," Barb explained.
