Posted on 11/09/2014 4:43:23 PM PST by Aliska
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro had gone 45 minutes without a pulse when doctors called her family into the operating room and told them there was nothing more they could do.
A team of more than a dozen doctors and nurses had been working desperately to revive her. But now they'd lost hope that the 40-year-old Deerfield Beach woman, whose heart had given out without warning after a routine C-section at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, was going to make it.
Devastated, Graupera-Cassimiro's husband, mother and sister said goodbye to her just hours after they'd welcomed a healthy baby girl. The medical team stopped all lifesaving procedures. They watched a heart monitor, preparing to record a time of death.
And then the impossible happened: A blip of a heartbeat showed up. Then another, and another.
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I don’t think Henry Waxman has a pulse or a brain, but he’s still around. Just sayin’
I still see the hand of God in the beauty of creation and little graces that lift my heart that come at a time and manner that seems a bit much for coincidence. I often see how he has worked in the lives of others with what I posted and your story which help me to keep my faith going.
Joe Biden currently holds the record. No oxygen has reached his brain for decades.
Read the article and you’ll discover that they not only intubated her, but performed chest compressions for 45 minutes before giving up on getting her heart started. So it can hardly be said that she was not getting oxygen for that length of time.
No, that was a totally different story; I’m glad I read the link. Sure makes you think. I think I need to keep my opinions out of some of this and just listen to what people are saying.
I think that’s him!
Thanks for posting this.
And many more blessed well done vids of God's grace: http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/Amazing/ , bless Him!
“Pulled a kid out after 15. He recovered.
That has to have been an incredible experience. Like I said, I’ve trained. Never had to do it.
Lon Chaney had makeup.
One of God’s many miracles.
These stories bring so much joy to my heart.
may have still been on a mechanical respirator .. but even so no pulse.
Within a few hours, Graupera-Cassimiro, a human resources manager and now a mother of two, was tugging at the breathing tube on her face and scribbling notes to family.
“There’s very few things in medicine that I’ve seen, working in the trauma center myself and doing all the things that I do, that really were either unexplainable or miraculous,” said Dr. Anthony Dardano, president of the hospital’s medical staff. “And when I heard this story, that was the first thing that came to my mind.”
In what hospital staff are calling the “Second Miracle on Meadows Road,” Graupera-Cassimiro has made a complete recovery. She was taken off the life-support machine a day after the Sept. 23 near-death experience.
It was caused, doctors say, by an amniotic fluid embolism. The rare, serious condition occurs when fluid that surrounds a baby in the uterus enters a mother’s bloodstream and heart, clogging it. Sudden and unpredictable, it creates a vacuum and stops circulation.
Doctors say it’s hard to put a number on the odds of Graupera-Cassimiro’s survival. In many cases, amniotic fluid embolism is not diagnosed until after death. But living through 45 minutes without a pulse is extremely unusual.
The decision to call in Graupera-Cassimiro’s family wasn’t made lightly.
“Once we say that’s it, that’s it,” anesthesiologist Dr. Anthony Salvadore said.
Graupera-Cassimiro returned to the hospital Tuesday for a tearful reunion with the medical team that fought to save her. She hugged the doctors and nurses — who cooed over her daughter, dressed head to toe in pink — and thanked them.
“God had the right people in the right place,” Graupera-Cassimiro said as she cradled the sleeping baby, named Taily.
The baby had just been delivered by obstetrician Dr. Michael Fleischer during a scheduled, “unremarkable” C-section when disaster struck the afternoon of Sept. 23.
Fresh from the operating room, Graupera-Cassimiro “went from talking to being unconscious,” while in a recovery room at the hospital’s Toppel Family Place, anesthesiologist Dr. Jordan Knurr said.
Doctors and nurses sprung to action, starting CPR, intubating Graupera-Cassimiro and calling in help from other parts of the hospital. Fleischer, on his way to other duties after the successful operation, hurried back. Anesthesiologists, intensivists and more nurses flowed into the room and spent over two hours trying to revive her.
“Suddenly,” Fleischer said, “the heart just stopped.”
They kept pumping Graupera-Cassimiro’s chest for 45 minutes, taking turns to avoid exhaustion. They repeatedly tried shocking her. Nothing worked.
A distraught Fleischer told Graupera-Cassimiro’s family she faced slim chances of pulling through, and brought them into the operating room. There, her mother cried out for God to “please take me instead.” Her sister grabbed and hugged her.
The family left the room with nurse Julie Ewing after saying their goodbyes. They held hands and prayed, Ewing on her knees.
Then another nurse, Claire Hansen, came out of the operating room.
“Keep praying,” she said, “because her heart just started.”
Screams filled the room as Graupera-Cassimiro’s family took in the news. They jumped up and down and cried. Her sister ran into the operating room.
“It was a complete miracle of God. It was answered prayer,” Ewing said Tuesday. “We all were there. We all witnessed it.”
Graupera-Cassimiro woke up in the intensive care unit with no idea what had happened. She thought she was just coming to after the C-section and was bewildered by the voices she heard telling her to open her eyes. She wondered why they wouldn’t they let her sleep.
When she did open her eyes, she saw her family was crying and relatives had come in from Miami. She realized something must have gone wrong.
In the next few hours, Graupera-Cassimiro said, she remembered something she thought had been a dream: what she described as an encounter with the spirit of her late father, who told her it wasn’t her time. It dawned on her that it may not have been a dream.
When Dr. Shawn Iverson, a resident from Florida Atlantic University, checked in on her later in the morning, she gestured upward and nodded. And when Fleischer came to take off the
What a wonderful story, thanks for posting it.
I would say the woman received a miracle.
If i only would always be convinced of what i know.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (Romans 11:33)
There's an old Chinese parable about a farmer who had only one horse. One day the horse ran away, and all his neighbors shook their heads, "I'm so sorry," they all said, "This is such bad news. You must be so upset." The man just said, "We'll see."
A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses following. The man and his son corralled all 21 horses. His neighbors said, "Congratulations! This is such good news, you must be so happy." The man just said, "We'll see."
Then one of the wild horses kicked the man's only son, breaking both of his legs. When his neighbors found out, they said, "I'm so sorry. This is such bad news. You must be so upset." The man just said, "We'll see."
Soon the country went to war and every able-bodied young man was drafted to fight. The war was terrible and every young man from the village who went to fight was killed. But the farmer's son was spared, since his broken legs had prevented him from being drafted. His neighbors said, "Congratulations! This is such good news. You must be so happy!" But the man just said, "We'll see. (http://firstpresabq.org/worship/sermons/preservation)
Not so miraculous if she is a Democrat...
Sorry - couldn't help myself. God had His hand in it one way or another and His Love is absolute.
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