TULSA, Okla. — In a FOX23 Investigation, a 9-year-old girl was in the hospital a total of five days, and her mom thinks she got sick from playing in the Arkansas River. This all happened the weekend of the Big Dam Party. Tulsa’s Investigative Reporter Janna Clark has her story.
I talked to a 9-year-old girl, Eden, who went to play in the Tulsa Wave at the Arkansas River. She and her mom, Brenda Bicskey, told me they believe doing that made her really sick.
Brenda wasn’t with her kids that day. Eden went to the wave park with her dad and brother on Labor Day during the busy opening weekend for Zink Lake, the Tulsa Wave Park and more.
“I was on a tube with my dad and 12-year-old brother,” Eden said.
She told me she went down the flume four or five times.
Eden wasn’t wearing a life vest, and told me she kept falling off the tube into the water.
“So those big bumps over there where you go down, that’s where I fell off,” Eden said. “It goes vroom and quickly goes like that. So, I can’t hold on.”