Posted on 05/26/2008 12:28:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Patient Brought To Cleveland Clinic
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A West Virginia woman is at the Cleveland Clinic after walking the line between life and death.
Doctors are calling Val Thomas a medical miracle. They said they can't explain how she is alive.
They said Thomas suffered two heart attacks and had no brain waves for more than 17 hours. At about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, her heart stopped and she had no pulse. A respiratory machine kept her breathing and rigor mortis had set in, doctors said.
"Her skin had already started to harden and her fingers curled. Death had set in," said son Jim Thomas.
They rushed her to a West Virginia hospital. Doctors put Thomas on a special machine which induces hypothermia. The treatment involves lowering the body temperature for up to 24 hours before warming a patient up.
After that procedure, her heart stopped again.
"She had no neurological function," said Dr. Kevin Eggleston.
Her family said goodbye and doctors removed all the tubes.
However, Thomas was kept on a ventilator a little while longer as an organ donor issue was discussed.
Ten minutes later the woman woke up and started talking.
"She (nurse) said, 'I'm so sorry Mrs. Thomas.' And mom said, 'That's OK honey. That's OK," Jim Thomas said.
Val Thomas and her family strongly believe that the Lord granted them their miracle and they want everyone to know.
"I know God has something in store for me, another purpose. I don't know what it is but I'm sure he'll tell me," she said.
She was taken to the Cleveland Clinic for specialist to check her out. Doctors said amazingly she has no blockage and will be fine.
Something is missing from the story. No one recovers from rigor mortis and no one can talk while on a ventilator.
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Divine intervention or human error?
“It would be better if we could get rid of the Democrats!!!!”
This phenomenon is a common occurrence in WVA. How else can you explain Sen. Byrd?
I wonder the same thing. If there wasn’t human error in diagnosing her brain waves and time without oxygen, then next I would suspect that the machines kept her down or worse - that the hospital wanted to harvest her organs.
Not that I don’t want to believe in the Divine, only that I would first want to rule out all the possible earthly possibilities.
“Divine intervention or human error?”
Human Error. They didn’t harvest her organs quickly enough.
The right-to-die crowd won’t like this.
Hard to say. But why would they monitor brain waves for 17 hours?
Atheists, Schiavo-killers, abortion-lovers, Objectivists, and euthanasia enthusiasts, riddle me this: if consciousness is merely an epiphenomenon of brain activity, if brain activity = mind, how does a woman with a flatlined EEG for 17 hours wake up and resume normal life?
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A respiratory machine kept her breathing and rigor mortis had set in,
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I think there is more to this story that the doctors and hospital would not like to be public. Something stinks here.
You posted: THIS is the reason there are wakes and vigils for the recently departed. Our forefathers had learned that there is good reason to allow time to be sure the presumed dead are really dead.
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This is also why Lazarus and Jesus Christ were in the tomb for 3 days. This assured that they were really dead. No one could effectively argue that they were not. Lazarus and Jesus Christ were raised from the dead. Amen.
You say goodbye and I say Hello. (old Beatles song).
Ping for this woman’s second chance. I’m surprised it was at the Cleveland Clinic but she’s glad to be here by all accounts.
Maybe she was playing possum.
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