Posted on 07/21/2008 8:31:16 PM PDT by topher
At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, they once had a system to monitor patients with a camera in the ICU rooms (Intensive Care Rooms). That way it might be possible to someone watching the monitors to catch eye of something that someone in the room might miss.
This is Our Lady of Lourdes RMC in Lafayette, LA.
The woman who told me this story had been with the dying man until 11pm that night -- when her shift ended.
Around midnight, the nurses watching the monitors saw a veiled woman standing beside the man with her hands folded (as though she was in prayer).
Everytime, someone went into the room to investigate what was going on, they saw nothing in the room. But the people watching the monitors would see the woman on the monitor move out of the way of the person that had come into the room.
This was repeated several times with the same result: the woman would move out of the way of people in the room when they entered the room. This was only visible on the monitors and not to the people in the room.
When the man passed away, the woman immediately disappeared.
This reminds me of the portion of a famous Catholic prayer:
"Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."
Glad you came thru ok!
What’s the doc have you doing differently now?
Blessed Mother standing guard to lead a soul to her son.
Prayers for a continuing recovery.
Wow! What an experience. You were in the presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary or the man’s guardian angel and did not realize it?
At the time I thought maybe it was the ghost or spirit of a nun still around blessing patient’s who were dying.
I never would’ve thought it could’ve been the Blessed Virgin, but I did wonder if she ever came back for him.
The nurse who had been part of the story had moved on to a different speciality. She was wearing a blouse with "Faith, Hope, and Charity", and I had a good Mother Teresa story to tell her, as well as a story of priest who had died with a smile on his face.
She told me her story after I had told several of mine stories... She was truly a person filled with faith...
Diet will be the major change from this point on. I had been doing consider exercise.
Someone else caught this mistake and added LOL, which was quite true of this mistake.
But any laughing out loud would be very painful for me right now.
Prayers up for you, topher.
I had a brother that went through the same thing a couple of months earlier, and nuclear stress test had iffy results.
His angiogram clearly showed his problem, and an angiogram showed my problem.
They said family history was the strongest case for how to proceed with heart problems.
My brother was sent home from overseas because someone at the place he worked overseas dropped dead, and he had unusually high blood pressue.
So he was back to stateside to checked out after the other guy died and he was having trouble with high blood pressure.
This is a blood test.
This should read:
Diet will be the major change from this point on. I had been doing considerABLE exercise.
We also need to prayer for troops -- especially with Obama in Iraq/Afghanistan.
God bless.
Yes, it's hot enough here in July and now it's even hotter with him spewing his hot air all over the place.
I hope he leaves Iraq today or has already left. I haven't heard because I've been buried in a project this morning. ;-)
This tells me that the Blessed Mother will be there to pray for us. Also I extend greetings for a speedy recovery.
Prayers for your recovery.
***We both looked at each other and I asked my charge nurse if there was anyone like that in the hospital, she looked totally spooked and said ‘no one is here but us’, meaning only the staff was in the hospital right then, no visitors, no clergy.****
Af few days before my mother passed away she said there were two men in the hospital room with her. She saw one at the foot of the bed and the other sitting in the chair. My sister was there and she said there was no one else in there except her and mom.
My sister was really shook up over that.
Just for the record, she was not RC.
When my Dad was in the hospital after taking a fall, and having hip replacement surgery (the doctors thought all was well), he told my Mother and me that “some of Stacy’s people had come to see him”. One he recognized- Sr. Immaculata, and two older nuns that he didn’t recognize. He said that Immaculata told him that there was something wrong with him that the doctors didn’t catch, that it was very bad, and that he was going to die, but he shouldn’t be afraid.
Immaculata visited him two other times as an infection the doctors didn’t catch took over, and eventually killed him several weeks later.
“Stacy’s people”-Stacy was my daughter’s name in secular life before she joined Mother Angelica’s Poor Clares. Immaculata was one of Mother Angelica’s nuns, a beautiful young woman who died of cancer a few years ago. We assumed the other two nuns were Sr. David and Sr. Rafael.
There have been other visits by Sr. Immaculata of which I am aware. One young man came to the monastery to thank her for coming to visit him and pray for him in the hospital.
Imagine his shock when he was told that Sr. Immaculata had died over a year before.
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