Kids surviving impossible odds
From illnesses to accidents and natural disasters, kids can survive impossible odds; and four-year-old Gabe Allbritton is no exception.
Allbritton was in the yard with his grandmother when he suddenly disappeared. The toddler's dog had reportedly been missing for a week, and officials now believe the boy heard the dog bark and went to find him, falling into an old water well in the process.
A little over three hours later, emergency workers in Lincoln County, Mississippi fashioned a seat out of rope and hoisted the little boy up to safety. His pooch was rescued shortly after.
Washington teen survives plane crash
Sixteen-year-old Autumn Veatch was flying from Montana to Washington with her step-grandparents, July 11, 2015, when their private plane caught fire and crashed in the Washington wilderness. Veatch then hiked alone through the rugged terrain of the Cascade Mountains for two days, before she was picked up by a passing motorist and transported to safety.
The status of Veatch's step-grandparents is still unclear, though Veatch's mother posted to Facebook that they didn't make it. Veatch was treated at a nearby hospital for injuries, which miraculously only include non-life threatening scrapes and bruises.
Baby pulled from the rubble
Four-month-old Sonit Awal is one of the youngest -- and most inspiring -- victims of the 7.8 earthquake that devastated Nepal on April 25, 2015.
He spent 22 hours buried under his collapsed home in Muldhoka, Bhaktapur, before search and rescue workers found and pulled him from the rubble.
Teen pulled from rubble
Earthquake survivor Pemba Tamang, 15, is rescued by the Armed Police Force from the collapsed Hilton Hotel in Kathmandu, April 30, 2015.
Tamang had been buried under the hotel, in a space smaller than a coffin, since the 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal, April 25, 2015.
Five days without food, water or the ability to move. If those aren't impossible odds, what are?
Rose McGrath beats leukemia
Rose McGrath, a 12-year-old Michigan girl, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia back in August 2012. She recently beat the disease, only to be dealt another blow.
In April 2015, she received a letter from her Catholic middle school, informing her that she was being kicked out due to all of the days she missed for her leukemia treatments and her grades slipping as a result. Rose and her family have filed a complaint with the office of Civil Rights and are now waiting to see if any formal action will be taken.
Lily Groesbeck survives car crash
An 18-month-old Utah girl, named Lily Groesbeck, survived a car accident that claimed her 25-year-old mother's life, in March 2015.
She then also survived a night inside the car that had sunk in a freezing Utah river.
Sailor Gutzler survives plane crash
After her small plane crashed in the Kentucky woods in January 2015, Sailor Gutzler, 9, managed to crawl away from the wreckage.
She was the only member of her family to survive the accident.
Oliver gets new heart
Baby Oliver Otto was born nearly seven weeks early; at six days old, he also was one of the youngest heart transplant recipients at Phoenix Children's Hospital in Arizona.
His successful operation took place in February 2015.
Teen survives parachute failure
Makenzie Wethington, 16, fell more than 3,000 feet to the ground when her parachute malfunctioned during a skydiving jump in January 2014.
She broke several bones, but survived.
Dylan Hayes "falls really far"
In March 2013, Dylan Hayes, a four-year-old Colorado boy, fell out of a 3-story window ... and landed on his feet.
"I fall ... really, really far," he later explained to CBS.
Baby Hassan lives after bombing
After a 2012 air strike by Assad regime forces in Aleppo, Syria, rescuers found this baby, known only as Hassan, in the rubble.
Hero Cassidy Stay
Cassidy Stay, 15, was the lone survivor of a mass shooting that killed her parents and siblings near Houston in July 2014.
Her grandfather, Roger Lyon (left) later called her a "hero" for alerting authorities before the shooter could take more lives.
Boy falls 230 feet
In November 2014, authorities in Northern California rescued a four-year-old boy who survived after falling 230 feet from a seaside cliff and landing on a rocky beach.
Precious Reynolds beats rabies
In June 2011, Precious Reynolds of California became only one of three people in the United States to ever survive rabies.
Libyan plane crash survivor
Ruben van Assouw, 9, was the only survivor of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in May 2010.
More than 100 people were on board.
Adam endures snowy night
A two-year-old Polish toddler, known only as Adam, made it through a freezing night wearing only his pajamas before landing in the care of heart surgeon Janusz Skalski in October 2014.
Teen stows away on plane
April 2014 was a very lucky month for fifteen-year-old Yahye Abdi. The Somali teen stowed away in the wheel well of a flight from San Jose, Calif., to Maui. He passed out during the flight, but managed to live through the ordeal.
Toddler eats metal balls
In March 2012, three-year-old Payton Bushnell swallowed thirty seven Buckyballs.
The magnetic desk toys snapped the girl's intestines together, ripped three holes into her lower intestine and one hole into her stomach, but she survived.
Kindergartner beats alligator
Joey Welch, 6, lived through an alligator attack in South Florida, in April 2013.
The boy had fallen off of a nearby boat ramp.
Teen thwarts flesh-eating bacteria
Seattle teen Trey Lauren fought off a nearly fatal bout with flesh-eating bacteria in April 2014.
The thirteen-year-old had cut his leg with a nail before the infection took hold.
Mississippi girl now AIDS-free
In March 2013, Dr. Deborah Persaud, a pediatric HIV expert at Johns Hopkins' Children's Center in Baltimore, announced that a two-year-old Mississippi girl born with the AIDS virus had been "functionally cured."
There's no guarantee the child will remain healthy. But if the child's luck holds, it would mark only the world's second reported cure.