Posted on 12/22/2017 8:29:01 PM PST by EdnaMode
Sheila Lewis was in a coma and hadn’t had anything to eat or drink for 12 days. Her family expected her to die, but instead she woke up and asked for a glass of water.
Now she'll be able to celebrate Christmas with her family.
On Labor Day, Sheila, a grandmother, began to rapidly lose her memory.
“She could not grasp what day it was,” daughter Brandy Arends told Forum News Service. She says they “instantly” know something was very wrong.
Indeed, something was very wrong.
“She kept saying my brain is in a fog,” Chasity Brandt, another of Sheila’s daughters, shared with WDAY-TV’s Kevin Wallevand. She forgot her grandchildren’s names, then her daughters’ names, then her own name.
In short order, Sheila was taken to a Fargo hospital, but her condition only worsened. She lost the ability to speak. Breathing and feeding tubes were put in. She was placed in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
With no improvement, Sheila’s family eventually transported her to the Mayo Clinic. But even the Mayo Clinic’s expertise couldn’t help Sheila.
Arends said the “world-renowned doctors” at Mayo Clinic told her they had “never seen a case like” Sheila’s, according to a Twin Cities report.
“They didn’t even know what they were dealing with,” the daughter added.
Sheila fell into a coma. She lay unresponsive for weeks. Arends explained that her mother’s condition was described as a “vegetative state.”
Finally, the family decided to disconnect life support machines.
“Nothing more we could do,” Arends told Wallevand.
“We canceled plans and brought the kids down to say goodbye to grandma,” Brandt added.
After saying their goodbyes this side of eternity, Sheila was taken off life support. Her daughters planned her funeral, and bought black.
But Sheila didn’t die. Finally, comatose Sheila was brought to her daughter’s home under Hospice care.
Twelve long days – with no food, water, or oxygen assistance – went by. It had been six weeks since Sheila last uttered a word.
Then the miracle happened. Sheila asked for water.
“Did she just talk?” Brandt asked, according to Wallevand’s account. “Is she talking?”
Sheila not only awakened, but began to recover. When the Mayo Clinic heard about it, doctors asked to see Sheila.
“You are a miracle,” the experts said, according to Arends. “They said that word – ‘miracle’ – is never thrown around, (but) that is what you are.”
Sheila and her entire family are especially celebrating Christmas this year. Their mother and grandmother is back.
“I have always had faith, but more so now,” the Twin Cities quotes the beloved matriarch saying. “I am thankful I have been given this second chance.”
A YouCaring site receives donations to offset the cost of Sheila’s months of medical care, and treatment for newly discovered melanoma.
Thank God the docs didnt kill her. Almost though.
Just, wow!
She lived 12 days without water. The only reason was she didnt move and ehydrate hrself at a more normal rate of a conscious, active, moving person.
For awake/moving people its 3 or 4 days. I cant believe how incredibly dehydrated she was, and that her heart was able to pump that thick blood around without problems.
I wish that, whoever prayed for Sheila, would say a prayer for me.
I wish that, whoever prayed for Sheila, would say a prayer for me.
I didn’t know Sheila, but I’m saying a prayer for you right now.
I’m a crazy evangelical and I still think that God has to be pretty steamed about her getting the Terri Schiavo treatment... I think she’s owed some big apologies not just a welcome back!
I didn’t know about Sheila until I read this post. But I’ve said a prayer for you. I’ll keep you in my prayers. God bless you.
You’re totally awesome. If I get what I wish for this Christmas, I shall never again ask for anything else.
God’s blessings on you and your loved ones.
The good Lord doesn’t wish you to quit praying for things just because you might get one spectacularly good thing.
The point is to glorify God with them all.
I will say a prayer for you tonight.
Soooooooooooooo awesome of you. Thank you
Soooooooooooooo awesome of you. Thank you. I’ll do the same for you.
prayers up
I’ll pray for you .
Just said a prayer for you. And may God Bless you.
If I were to receive what I really want, I would turn into a puddle of grateful tears.
Done.
obamsky would never have let her slip through the death-panel’s fingers...
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