Pakistani-born British singer Annie Khalid has shared the experience of how her seven-year-old daughter suffered two cardiac arrests in less than 24 hours.

 

In an Instagram post featuring videos of her daughter Isha's brave journey, Annie began by saying, "I can’t believe I finally have the courage to post this… It was January 23rd, 2024. A date etched into my soul forever."

 

She revealed that Isha, who was perfectly healthy, suddenly had two cardiac arrests within just eight hours.

 

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"Her tiny heart was overwhelmed by arrhythmia and hypoxia. Oxygen deprivation for 45 long, brutal minutes caused her organs to start shutting down, one by one," Annie wrote.

 

Doctors had to put Isha on life support. She was intubated, connected to a heart-lung bypass machine, and placed on dialysis to keep her kidneys working. Annie recalled, "I watched through a blur of tears as my little girl, who once danced through our home with endless energy, lay motionless, tangled in wires and machines."

 

There was no warning before this happened. "My Isha. Born perfectly healthy. Not a single condition. Now facing organ failure, brain damage, and paralysis," she shared.

 

Doctors later told Annie that Isha had developed peripheral neuropathy and that due to the brain injury, she could no longer walk.

 

But even during this painful time, Annie held on to her faith. "Because when medicine had no more answers… Allah did," she wrote.

 

She described Isha as a miracle of God: "He is Ar-Rahman, Ar-Raheem, the Most Kind, the Most Merciful. And Isha is His miracle." Doctors were surprised at her survival, but Annie believes it was God's mercy. "Where logic ends, divine mercy begins."

 

"She’s here. My daughter is alive. She’s smiling, laughing, healing. She’s stronger than I ever knew a child could be. And Insha’Allah, she will walk again one day. I believe that with every beat of my heart," she wrote.

 

Annie also explained why she had been missing from the public eye for so long. "People have been asking, ‘Annie, where have you been?’ I’ve been here!! doing the most important thing in the world. Being a mother to the most courageous, resilient, and beautiful girl I’ve ever known."

 

She ended her post by asking everyone to remember her daughter in prayers, "Please keep Isha in your Dua’s."