BYU football » Test shows that 3-year-old’s brain can perform basic functions, but a lack of oxygen “devastated” her upper lobes.
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan performed Friday on the daughter of BYU running backs coach Reno Mahe revealed significant damage to the 3-year-old child's brain.
Elsie Mahe suffered an in-home accident involving the cord of a window blind on Tuesday that caused severe respiratory distress. She has been clinging to life at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City.
"We received bad news from Elsie's MRI," Reno Mahe said late Friday. "While her base brain is able to perform basic functions (breathing, coughing, reacting to pain), the upper lobes went without oxygen long enough to be devastated.