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."
So if Topher has not been responding to posts, there has been a reason. I had no ways to get on Freerepublic.
God bless. (Chris)topher
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This happened a few years back — they no longer have cameras in the ICU rooms...
The doctors were very unhappy with me.
I had had the chest pains the day before, and I felt I could safely get to the emergency room riding a bicycle the next day (which is how I got to the hospital).
When the doctor saw my cholesterol levels were through the roof, the cardiologist was extremely unhappy with me.
But in the past 20+ years, I have had false alarms with chest pains and going to the emergency room. This time it was not a false alarm.
I had 99% blockage in one area.
One thing that someone revealed to me is that Tim Russert had had a stress test just before his heart-ache.
It was only through an angiogram that my problem was discovered. Other tests did not show my problem.
God bless.
"Pray for us sinners,now and at the hour of our death. Amen."
I wonder if there is any more written about that incident, I'd love to read more about it. It would certainly make a believer out of those who observed it,I'd bet!
Thanks for posting it and happy that you are home from the hospital!!!
Years ago I worked in a hospital as a certified nursing assistant, I’m an RN now. At that time it was my job to get the vitals.
The hospital I worked in was very small. It had two halls that veered off from the nurses station at a right angle, so if you were in one hall you had nothing to do with the other hall.
The nurses were in the rooms on the other side and I was to collect the vitals in the other hall.
I went into the first room, where a young man in his 30’s was in the last stages of Hepatitis B, and had actually ‘gone crazy’ from it. I was afraid of him. I walked in, he usually would snarl or growl and hated getting vitals done. He did bare his teeth at me when I did his blood pressure and all, then I walked across the hall to obtain the next patient’s vitals. No one was in the hall at all, only three patient’s were even in this hall.
After I did the vitals I walked back to the nurses station passing the first room with the Hepatitis B case, the call light went on.
I went in and the patient looked at me, a completely reasonable look on his face. He said to me in a normal voice, (which I had never heard as he was demented from the disease) “Where is the woman who was in here?”
I said ‘that was me’. Just then the charge nurse walked in and he said, “No, the woman with all the crosses, I want to talk to her again”. “The woman with the crosses”.
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.
That patient died that night.
Glad you are recovering.
Your post reminded me of Fr. Corapi’s story about the woman in the garden when he was a child and the same woman in the hospital and the same woman again at his ordination and it wasn’t his earthly mother.
I knew a guy who had a stress test on Friday afternoon and died the next day of a heart attack.
Hmmmm, maybe stress tests are dangerous :-}
Best wishes to you for a long life filled with good health and happiness.
Ping to Salvation.
No, it is in a book of convert/revert stories. I took it camping so I’ll have to run out to the camper to see the name of the book, if I can find it.
It is “Welcome Home”
Compiled by St. Josephs Communications
Ignatius Press
Here, I typed them out.
“we had prayed to Our Lady, prayed the Holy Rosary, and I was in the back yard smelling the lilacs” “...All of a sudden I became aware of a young woman, a very beautiful young woman. She looked at me. I didn’t recognize her. She smiled, and she said but one word, my name, “Johnny” I was rather embarrassed, as little boys often are, and I turned away. When I turned back she was gone, which was not unusual. People came and went at my grandmother’s house all the time.”
“...I remember crying out from the depths of my soul, “Lord, how, how could it have come to this...” “AT that moment the door of the room opened, and a nurse came in. She was a young woman, very beautiful, vaguely familiar. She looked at me . She smiled, an very peaceful smile. She said but one word, “Johnny”. She went out and for some reason, the scent of lilacs came into the room. I though she was wearing perfume. I didn’t think anything of it. I really didn’t”
“As we processed out,...out of the corner of my eye I caught sigh of out of the corner of my eye I caught sight of a woman, a young woman, a beautiful young woman, a beautiful young woman who was vaguely familiar; and although I could not stop, she smiled at me. I saw her mouth form the wod “Johnny”, and as wer left St. Peter’s Basilica, the air was filled with the scent of lilacs.”
I guess you could call that typing, LOL.
This is OT, but the thread brought it to mind.
I prayed a rosary at the beginning of Traditional Mass yesterday for a very poor relative with three children who found all the money missing from her bank account due to a probably illegal garnishment. She can't pay for rent, diapers, or anything else.
Today an out-of-town pro bono lawyer suddenly took an interest in her case (he is apparently legit and good) and will try to get the money restored. The mother had been told just last week that she wouldn't be assigned representation probably for several months.
There have been other occasions when fortuitous things have happened to this young mother, and I refuse to believe that Blessed Virgin Mary has nothing to do with them.
But the poor woman sure goes through the wringer in the meantime.
Get well soon.
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