Woman’s Miraculous Recovery Stuns Husband & Doctors

• Justin
  December 13th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

  Well that’s a heartwarming story. I’m glad she wasn’t upset that he decided to take her off life support.

  So did taking her off life support bring her back?

• mig
  December 13th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

  apparently this is not so uncommong as there’s an almost identical story in my life. my father had a heart attack that caused him to fall into an arrest. after the warming stage, the neurologist gave us less than one percent chance he’d even be able to breathe on his own, much less anything else. he started to pressure my mother into a decision and finally got her to set a deadline. it was to happen on tuesday morning, last week. on monday morning he started responding to external stimuli. now, a week and a half later, he is able to speak, move all of his limbs, and seems to only have short term amnesia. three weeks after the incident, he’s starting physical therapy. all seems fine now.i didn’t believe in god then nor do i now, but i can’t believe that the only reason he is back is because of my mother’s religious stubbornness that gave him the extra couple of days he needed. truly incredible, but if this is happening more than once, neurologists really need to start changing the way they attack this problem because many people might have their life’s taken before they even have a chance to fight and recover.

• License Farm
  December 13th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

  http://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/13/womans-miraculous-recovery-stuns-h usband-doctors/#respond

  I haven’t finished watching the clip yet, but either the anchor or her writers need an education:

  “Painful,” perhaps; “painstaking,” whaaaa?

• Monster
  December 13th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

  Yet again we see proof that what doctors call a “persistent vegetative state” can be completely recovered from. Many people a year are murdered because a doctor told their families they cannot recover. Google Ambien and its effect on PVS patients and you’ll see definitive proof that doctors don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. BTW, my stepmom’s mother was woken from a supposed “PVS” by Ambien (something I recommended they try, since the stupid-ass doctor had never even heard of the treatment). She actually heard her doctor try to convince her husband to pull the plug while she was in the coma. I think the term itself is very misleading and should be dropped (vegetables can’t overhear anything).

• XuYu
  December 13th, 2007 at 12:58 pm

  Obviously, Jesus rewards those who turn their back on so-called “modern” technology.

• biltmore
  December 13th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

  @ XuYu

  WTF does Jesus have to do with this?! NOTHING.

  What a wonderful story tho. Very heartwarming.

• Theresa
  December 13th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

  I hate network newscasters. They’re so phoney.

• Kevin
  December 13th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

  “biltmore Says:
  December 13th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
  @ XuYu

  WTF does Jesus have to do with this?! NOTHING.

  What a wonderful story tho. Very heartwarming”

  biltmore….Jesus has Everything to do with this and one day you WILL wish that you knew this earlier in your life….

• andrew
  December 13th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

  *sigh* flaimbait story…

  @ Kevin

  Jesus sounds like a pretty loving guy if he’s ok with saying “oh I’m sorry you repented one day too late. eternal damnation for you”

• ruby
  December 13th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

  Terrific heart warming story! Interesting how the mind and body sometimes work differently than we think it should. Thanks for posting!

  Aside from that, I am always surprised at how many people come out of the woodwork and post on an unrelated issue because for some reason they hate God and those who believe. (Sigh~)

• Vonskippy
  December 13th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

  How hypocritical, give Jesus the credit for her recovery - but don’t blame him for putting her in the coma in the first place.

  How do you religious freaks see anything thru those massive blinders you delude yourself into wearing?

• brayden
  December 13th, 2007 at 6:11 pm

  @ ruby

  We don’t hate god. We hate people who make decisions — important, world-affecting decisions — based on their beliefs in god. We hate how wars are waged in gods name. And we hate how we will never ever understand how so many people are so deluded that they care more about an imaginary being than the other people living — and suffering — around them.

  Amen.

• just a guy
  December 13th, 2007 at 10:53 pm

  @ Ruby, Kevin, and XuYu:

  We don’t hate God OR people who believe. We are annoyed at people who use such things as swords and shields, attacking other’s beliefs or taking a superior air. I just gets tiresome. Yeah, that’s awesome if you want to believe in something, but don’t act like you can’t even imagine why everyone doesn’t agree with your beliefs.

  Also, I’m not an athiest. In fact, i’m a staunch Thiest! I just respect other people’s beliefs, and refuse to think my beliefs make me superior in any way.

  As for technology… well… i guess if God wanted man to fly…. he would have given him…. a brain to figure out how to do so…

• Jonn
  December 14th, 2007 at 2:24 am

  Christ. Let’s leave God and Jesus out of this. I say, everyone can believe whatever they want, but once it starts affecting other people’s lives, they need to keep it to themselves - as was stated above, religion starts wars (among other things). As far as I know, God does not want war, so talk about it if you want, but don’t tell people they ought to find God. If a person is inherently good then they’re good. If a murderer believes in God, they’re a murderer. Done. The end.

  But wow. This woman’s amazing. I’ll keep the ambien thing in mind though - doctors don’t know everything (I know some people who just got accepted to med. school). Afterall, they’re only human.

  (And I’m all for keeping loved ones alive forever on pure technology, but unless you have money, sometimes there’s no choice. I suggest if you care, churches start collecting to help pay for the costs of keeping people alive on machines. It’s actually pretty expensive after a while… unfortunately.)

  Though! If you have a stroke and go into a coma, is that or is it not what God wants? Should you interfere with it?

  Food for thought.

  I’m not going to read the responses. Just putting it out there.

• algonkin
  December 14th, 2007 at 7:32 am

  That is so well said Brayden. Thank you!

• ruby
  December 14th, 2007 at 9:29 am

  “We don’t hate god. We hate people who make decisions — important, world-affecting decisions — based on their beliefs in god. We hate how wars are waged in gods name. And we hate how we will never ever understand how so many people are so deluded that they care more about an imaginary being than the other people living — and suffering — around them.”

  I agree! I do hate violence and if I could follow one person (if he were alive today) it would be Ghandi. I do think it’s wrong to wage war at all, especially in God’s name. It gives the rest of us a bad name who have any belief in another higher power.

  God brings change to our lives at times not expected. We grow out of hardships given to us. God doesn’t control everything we do or the things that happen to us. But if we are guided, then good things can happen.

  Nuff said…done here.

• Klink-O
  December 14th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

  Well, I, for one, like peanut butter.

• snackcakes
  December 14th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

  Let’s not forget that Jesus awoke from a PVS and walked out of his tomb.

• edselpdx
  December 14th, 2007 at 7:25 pm

  Trying to link this Terri Schiavo (sp?) is a great disservice. BTW, this woman in the report was in a coma state, and not PVS. Terri Schiavo had radiological (CT) evidence of a large portion of her brain simply being gone from her brain damage and this case has no such mention.

  Trying to compare the cases is like apples to oranges. I am very happy that she has recovered, and I know that other occasionally do. Like the doctor in the piece said… something like for every one of her there are hundreds who don’t awaken and live in nursing homes the rest of their lives with no significant recovery.

  If there’s a reasonable chance that I won’t be able to wipe my own ass or read or write or create or communicate when I’m “recovered” from an event such as this, I’d rather have my loved ones err on the side of withdrawing care and letting me die than allowing me to lingering in a state of persistent dysfunction.

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