I'll tell you miracles can happen I have seen them.
It was a few years ago just about this time of year...
One of my long time patients who was about 84 and always short of breath
developed an upper respiratory infection that progressed to a slight
pneumonia. In anyone else a simple antibiotic and some rest would have been
adequate. But, knowing her I recommended that she be hospitalized - she
looked puzzled but agreed. despite aggressive treatments her status
worsened that night to the point that I contacted her family and said she is
going to die in the next few hours. they came and and asked me to ease her
suffering and please not place her on artificial life support. I mentioned
that she had previously instructed me that if this were to happen to just make
her comfortable and let her pass. She was completely unresponsive and
comatose hardly breathing with a barely perceptible heart beat.
Her blood tests were the most abnormal I had ever seen and clearly not
compatible with any life on this earth. I repeated the tests and they came
back even worse - the lab techs said that their machine must be recalibrated
as they didn't ever see #'s like these. It was only a matter of time now
until she died.
But, she didn't. She awoke the next morning from her coma. She didn't recall
what happened at all. She said she knew we were there but, couldn't speak to
us. She said she felt sorry for us because she knew it was going to be ok
but, could not tell us.
She went home that afternoon perfectly lucid and cheerful as ever.
M. Dunst
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