Posted on 05/24/2008 9:27:20 PM PDT by Between the Lines
Charleston, WV (WCHS) - A West Virginia woman, Val Thomas, was about as dead as you can get and being taken off life support. Today, she's sitting up in bed and talking.
Awake and praising her Lord and savior Jesus for breathing new life into her.
"Her toes were hardened and her toes were curling back," says Tim Thomas, her son.
Death came for Val at 1:30 in the morning last Saturday. Her heart stopped at home. Paramedics managed to revive her but she didn't look right.
"There was no life in my mother at her house," Tim says.
Family members scrambled into action. They began praying and asking God for a miracle. "It was probably close to 20 minutes that she had been with no oxygen and no pulse," says Daniel Pence, her nephew.
Doctors put her on a special machine which induces hypothermia. "Even after we induced hypothermia on her, her heart stopped again," says Dr. Kevin Eggleston.
In fact, Val's heart stopped a third time, making her odds of recovery almost nothing. "It was really no signs of neurological function," Eggleston says.
But loved ones didn't give up. They prayed in Ernest Holding onto hope and even had praise and worship right in the waiting room.
"I didn't know what to do, I had such a peace with us all praying in there," Tim says.
Tim told the doctors to take her off life support and everyone said goodbye, but a hold up about organ donations kept Val on the ventilator a little while longer.
"To God just show me something.. I know there's some thing here.. just show me and I didn't see it," Tim says.
Once the doctors did everything that they could and the family members had made every decision they felt they needed to, using scriptures for guidance. They finally turned Val over to Jesus. That's when they believe their miracle began."
Starting 10 minutes after they stopped the respirator, when the nurses removed the tubing.
"She moved her arm, we thought it was reflexes and then I went to take the tube out a second time and she began to cough and her eyes began to flutter," says Eggleston.
Even the doctors are baffled. Now, Val's talking a lot.
"I feel very blessed, I know God has something in store for me," Val says. "He has a purpose, I don't know what that is but I'm sure he'll tell me."
In the meantime her family's faith has grown tremendously and they're all very thankful.
"I just give all the praise to God and I'm so thankful that he's taken care of me," says Val.
How old was this woman? 20 or 70?
Just wow!
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"I feel very blessed, I know God has something in store for me," Val says. "He has a purpose, I don't know what that is but I'm sure he'll tell me."Not just the woman, but her entire family, have been given ever more reason for faith.In the meantime her family's faith has grown tremendously and they're all very thankful.
"I just give all the praise to God and I'm so thankful that he's taken care of me," says Val.
The doctors may be baffled. Val and her family are not.
Oh, for a moment I thought the title was referring to Hillary.
I'm thinking of Val Kilmer at the end of Tombstone.
Ping!
Yeah, it was because of the prayers. That's it. They made God change his mind.
Maybe they acted in accordance with what God had planned all along?
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That's one dirty business, I'm sure.
God will not do anything in the world, but in answer to prayer.
> Yeah, it was because of the prayers. That's it. They made God change his mind.
No one knows the mind of God. Not me, not you, not Val and her family.
Perhaps God intended this as a test of their faith. The Bible records many such tests. Perhaps.
Perhaps God had delegated this woman's demise to an intern underling who didn't get the drill right. Perhaps.
Perhaps God saw this family's faith and was moved to make a miracle as an example of what faith can do. Perhaps.
Perhaps there is no God, and these good people wasted their time, and Val just happened to revive for no obvious reason. Perhaps.
I don't know, and neither do you. But Val and her family know as much as we do, and they are satisfied with their answer.
That's enough to satisfy me.
“Yeah, it was because of the prayers. That’s it. They made God change his mind.”
So get a metal wrist band for yourself that says; “In Case of Injury or Accident DO NO PRAY”
Hmmm. I dunno if I'd go -that- far. God appears to have done an awful lot of things around the universe without humans praying for them -- we're only beginning to discover the wonders that are out there, and most of them were unknown to humans prior to, say, the Hubble Telescope.
As to whether God requires prayers from humans before doing anything -for- humans, I dunno, but you could be right.
You might enjoy my response to Youngblood above, comment #14
They don’t wait for a cold body..
I have little respect for the US medical system, of course there is worse in other countries but still its a joke here, basically if you do not have hefty health insurance you are ignored, mistreated and or forgotten, only the wealthy get good medical care.
It's a figure of speech, sport.
That’s right!
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