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A mom has spoken out in warning after her son was sh0cked with ‘enough amps to k!ll him’ and ‘nearly d!ed’.
On April 30, 2024, Danielle Davis woke up to hear her 16-year-old son, Rayce Ogdahl, screaming.
Davis said, “I heard him shout ‘mom,’ and my son was standing in the hallway.”
Rushing to the teenager’s room, the mom discovered her son with burn marks around his neck.
“He said: ‘I’ve been electr0cuted,'” the mom recalled.
Danielle detailed her son’s explanation as to being in bed, having ‘rolled over to get comfortable when he heard something fall off the bed’.
The teen’s phone had been on charge ‘so his alarm would go off for school the next day’.
However, when Rayce rolled over, his metal necklace came into contact with exposed progs from the charger’s plug in an extension cord. The contact caused a surge of power to go through the necklace, in turn scorching his neck.
The mom added, “Because everything was metal, it made a complete circuit around his neck.”
Rayce was reportedly ‘completely conscious throughout the whole thing and aware he was being electr0cuted,’ his entire body beginning to hurt after the voltage surged through.
“He said this all happened within a matter of seconds, and he visibly saw sparks coming from his neck,” the mom said. “He told me his whole body hurt and he thought he was going to d!e.”
After hearing his screams and seeing the burns, Danielle quickly rushed him to Integris Health Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma.
Admitted to intensive care, doctors said Rayce had suffered a variety of second, third, and fourth-degree burns and had been sh0cked with ‘enough amps to k!ll him’.
He’s since been left with scars covering ‘almost his entire neck’ from ‘his chin to his collarbone’ and ‘you can see the pattern of the necklace’ there too.
Danielle reflected that the incident has ‘definitely made Rayce a lot more self-aware’.
The mom resolved: “We’re just so grateful he’s OK. He could’ve easily d!ed that night. It was amazing that he was still conscious and could still alert us. It would’ve been a different story.”
Warning others, she added, “When it comes to your phone, there’s not a text message or notification that is important enough to have your phone on your bed. Anything can happen, and Rayce is proof of that.
“Pay attention to your cords, and I would recommend to anybody don’t use extension cords at all.”
Source: unilad.com