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Woman Hears Family Saying Their Goodbyes, Fights to Communicate When Removed From Life Support
KFOR ^ | MARCH 4, 2016

Posted on 03/04/2016 3:37:06 PM PST by nickcarraway

Many of us have had to or will have to do it — make the painful decision to pull their loved one off life support. The Pellettiere-Swapp family had to, but their story took a turn that some call miraculous.

“Everything can be taken away. You can wake up one day and everything is fine, and then your life is a mess,” Steven Pellettiere-Swapp said. “Keep your family close and don’t let them go.”

His advice comes after a heartbreaking and amazingly miraculous ordeal he and his family recently experienced.

“I don’t consider it a miracle but everybody else, that’s how they reference it,” Lyndon, Steven’s mom, said.

Last month, Steven found Lyndon unconscious. He called 911.

Lyndon, 45, fell into a coma for 12 days.

Her doctors told her family — her husband, her daughter, Amanda, and Steven — that there was nothing more they could do for her.

Respecting Lyndon’s decision to preserve her organs for donation, the family decided to take her off life support. One by one, each family member sat with her, talked to her. Lyndon heard every word they said.

“I remember people talking to me,” she explained. “I remember when people came to visit, my niece reading to me.”

“[Doctors] told [my family] that I would start to make noises when they turned off life support. I was very agitating. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk, couldn’t respond. I could just hear conversations around me and about me,” Lyndon continued. “I remember a doctor opening my eyes, messing with me, and telling my family I was not reacting.”

Lyndon says she tried desperately to speak.

“In my head it was very clear what I was saying, but it wasn’t to them. I was finally able to get out ‘I’m a fighter,’ which is what my husband was whispering in my ear. [He said] ‘I need to you to fight.'”

Despite all medical predictions, Lyndon was back, responding, not even realizing what was happening Amanda came in the next day and melted down.

“I looked at her, and she just says, ‘Hi,’ and I just fell to my knees,” Amanda said tearfully. “I told her, ‘I thought you had been gone for 12 hours.'”

“I don’t take for granted that I get to come home and kiss my mom,” Steven said. “Every day I come home from work, seeing her and talking to her.”

Lyndon has a message for people who have, and maybe one day will have, loved ones hospitalized, physically not responding.

“Just because you are not conscious does not mean you cannot hear,” she said. “So you should talk to your loved ones if you are in that situation. They hear you.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
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1 posted on 03/04/2016 3:37:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Thanks for making my screen blurry. That’s some story right there. I lost my mom a few months ago. She dropped into a coma 3 days before passing. I’m thankful to read this, as I continued to talk to her every day, played her CD’s for her and such. I never got a response, but this gives me hope her last few days had the comfort of family talking to her before she passed.


2 posted on 03/04/2016 3:41:52 PM PST by dware (Everybody wants to be a patriot, until it's time to do patriot stuff.)
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To: jenbean

prolife ping!


3 posted on 03/04/2016 3:41:53 PM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: nickcarraway

Thank you.


4 posted on 03/04/2016 3:43:07 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: nickcarraway

Thanks for posting the story. I have of similar cases.


5 posted on 03/04/2016 3:58:17 PM PST by Dante3
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To: nickcarraway

When you are at death’s door your doctors will be there to pull you through.


6 posted on 03/04/2016 4:05:59 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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Didn't want to have to do this, but you forced me into it.

Click to support Free Republic or else.
":^)
7 posted on 03/04/2016 4:13:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: nickcarraway

The doctors should be facing criminal charges for attempted murder.


8 posted on 03/04/2016 4:22:11 PM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Dante3

I wonder if there could be some kind of apparatus to allow selection of letters by brain wave from something like a virtual Ouija board? Like the patient can think “Yes” or “No” as, one by one, letters in view on a screen blink in sequence?

I can’t believe these near-paralysis efforts will NOT show on a brain wave monitor. Someone needs to hook it up with a means of communication, and then make the whole thing economical enough to deploy in all hospitals.


9 posted on 03/04/2016 4:24:45 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Dante3

It could be tested with volunteers who aren’t paralyzed, but for those willing to undergo it for the sake of science, it could even be tested with people temporarily immobilized with medical pancuronium and breathing on a tube, once they have satisfied themselves that it will work when not immobilized. That would take a brave volunteer, but if it would convince the doubtful that this thing isn’t coming up with mere nonsense, even I would be willing to do it.


10 posted on 03/04/2016 4:33:15 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Captain Pike approves.

11 posted on 03/04/2016 4:36:32 PM PST by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: MrBambaLaMamba
When you are at death’s door your doctors will be there to pull you through.

...and harvest your body parts for as much profit as they can, apparently.

12 posted on 03/04/2016 5:24:56 PM PST by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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To: TangibleDisgust
I warned my kids and family.
Never say Yes to that innocent organ donor question on your drivers license app .

You are on a new special list made for hell.

Trust me these organ folks roam the hospital halls looking for their next victim.

13 posted on 03/04/2016 5:32:26 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: nickcarraway

But but but but we were assured by smarty smart smart real-life medical Freepers that this could NEVER HAPPEN!


14 posted on 03/04/2016 5:56:06 PM PST by angryoldfatman
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To: MrBambaLaMamba
Let's fix this to reflect obamacare reality: "When you are at death’s door your doctors will be there to pull PUSH you through.
15 posted on 03/04/2016 6:21:48 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: nickcarraway

The exact same thing happened in my life.... only I had said no to organ donation. My dad fell into a coma. He was diabetic and the Dr told me he could live like this for decades and did I REALLY want to feed him.

Yes

But he will NEVER recover. Did he have a living will.... are you sure you want to feed him? I told them they would do their best for him.

10 days later when I walked in and said “Hi dad” he said “Hi” back. I was so surprised! I said “you’re back!” He lived for another 2 years and those were the best years of our relationship. The Dr never did apologize.


16 posted on 03/04/2016 10:12:14 PM PST by Grammy (Save the earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: dware

If you are an organ donor, they are quicker to name you a hopeless case because they want your organs healthy for transplant.


17 posted on 03/05/2016 4:43:02 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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