Posted on 01/30/2015 10:36:34 PM PST by Colofornian
Teri Roberts' grieving family had already come to terms with her likely death, planning to turn off her ventilator, when they say a "miracle" happened.
The 56-year-old wife, mother and grandmother, had been in a spiraling coma for 12 days when just four hours before her family planned to pull the plug, she opened her eyes.
"She just magically woke up. Literally four hours before we moved to take her off life support," her overjoyed son, Ryan Roberts, recalled that Dec. 22 awakening at a press conference Thursday.
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Teri Roberts' grieving family had already come to terms with her likely death, planning to turn off her ventilator, when they say a "miracle" happened. The 56-year-old wife, mother and grandmother, had been in a spiraling coma for 12 days when just four hours before her family planned to pull the plug, she opened her eyes. "She just magically woke up. Literally four hours before we moved to take her off life support," her overjoyed son, Ryan Roberts, recalled that Dec. 22 awakening at a press conference Thursday.
I prefer their (divine) "miracle" reference over the "magic" one.
Smart old gal. Waking up In time Never underestimate the wisdom that comes with age
He was in a coma for two full weeks on complete life support. Gradually he came back from the fog, eventually being transitioned from ICU to a level of hospital care just below ICU, then out to a nursing home for mostly Alzheimer patients. This week he walked 150 feet with a platform walker.
He has had significant recovery to the brain, which shrank 15% with the trauma he suffered. He has a doctorate in Bio-Physics, and all though he has not a single clue what happened to him in May, he is able to converse with his care givers, albeit with aphasia intrusion. We are looking forward to him transitioning to an assisted living place sometime this year.
Back when he came out of the two week coma, I was able to ask him what he wanted to do, have life support removed or fight to see how far he could come back. I kept asking him for an entire week, with no response. Then, suddenly, I asked him again and he used sign language to request writing materials. He was right handed. With his left hand he wrote that he wanted to try and recover what he could, to see what was possible!
Never give up on someone just because they are comatose before you. The human being is a soul traveling this planet in a body. Some of the things my cousin has related recently would make the hair on your neck prickle. Reality is not what we think it is based upon just what the senses capture. he's been 'somewhere else' and returned here.
Cousin Tom spends the better part of his day and evening that he is in bed with an earplug inserted, listening to the prophetic books of the Bible as read by Andrew Scorby on CD. One of these days I have no doubt he is going to gush out quite an interesting missive which I will have to be quick to capture completely. He has told me, 'we live in interesting times, end times'.
Hopefully, this is what she did want and still does want.
Some people face their mortality in advance, and leave clear notorized statements of what should be done if certain events
occur.
kerping, if you’re interested in this sort of thing.
Nooooooooooobody faces their mortality in advance, my friend. "Notorized" statements notwithstanding.
Kind of awkward.
Wow, interesting story! Please keep us updated.
Welcome back, honey. We were just joking about killing you off.
I would like to hear more about what he told you that made the hair on your neck prickle.
Very interesting to me.
Under 0bama’s regime, she would have been gone days before.
(This is not a miracle.)
Reminds me of one of the new Dumb and Dumber ads - You only pretended to be in a coma for all these years just to keep the joke going.... (way off paraphrase, but hits the point)
Ping to your group.
Me too.
Praying for your cousin, for the maximum recovery and God’s will be done.
(I had a cousin in a similar situation who fully recovered except for some small differences in her voice. Had to learn to walk, talk, feed herself, etc. from scratch.)
Yes, I would like to hear more, too.
On this occasion he raised his left hand to interrupt me (his right side is still partially paralyzed, some movement in right leg but nothing except the right thumb working a little in the right arm). He asked if I had had cats before. I replied that I had.
He then gave me a stumbling dissertation on how all living things have a soul, a soul of life, and animals have a more complex soul than plants, but that humans are the only animals with a spirit attached to their soul of life in much the same way the soul of life is attached to the physical body.
At that point I wanted to interrupt and ask something, but I hesitated because sometimes interrupting him stops the flow coming through into speech. He went on to say that all living things are bound into a cycle of life connected to the planet of their origin and keep recycling into new bodies after dying, all except humans. That it is our spirit part that breaks that cycle of recycling over and over in another body, and that God has given us knowledge that we will eventually be given another body to occupy, but that body will be somehow out of the cyclic system of this planet.
The questions I was left wondering about were, what about the life level of the cells in a human body, are they in that recycling loop but the soul of the individual using those cells is not? And, if the life of a previous cat is now in the current cat, does the current cat have any clue regarding the previous life? and of course a host of other questions have bubbled into my slow witted brain as I've thought about that amazing assertion from him.
Tom is not a simple man. He is very highly educated and has lived 68 years, doing a whole host of things in his life. He suffered a couple of strokes more than twenty years ago, and I went up to South Bend to bring him down to where I live so that family could be more involved with his life. he continued to live independently, with only car service and occasional lunch meetings, then being at family gatherings once per year. With his episode last May, many of we cousins have been spending more time with him.
Our family on my Mother's side had nineteen grand-kids/19 first cousins, of all ages, but a gaggle of us were within three years of each other in age and spent several summers at our grandparents home in Tennessee as kids. We try to maintain as best we can a family sense via gathering on our grandfather's farm August of each year. There are now great grand-kids enjoying the Tennessee scene via these gatherings. By being in Tennessee, Tom has been able to partake of this family gathering thing. He is looking forward to trying to be there this coming August, in 2015. He may make it, with a little help from the cousins.
One question that I had wanted to ask relates to aliens from other planets, if there are such visitors to Earth, when they die away from their planet does their life recycle back on their planet? I doubt I will ask him that now, however, since the concept of quantum entanglement gives me something of an answer, IF the aliens do not possess a spirit.
I have heard that hearing is the last sense to go, and people in comas can hear everything. This poor woman probably heard them talking and mustered all her strength to “wake up” and save herself. Thank God!
So the animals get new bodies on this planet and only humans get a new body that isn’t on this planet? Is that the gist of it?
I have suspected that heaven is another dimension that we cannot see until we leave our earthly body. However, apparently we are able to recognize each other there.
I know this sounds silly but I have been hoping that in heaven I could have my animals....assuming they let me into heaven. :-)
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