Back in November, I heard a story of a horrible accident that happened to the boyfriend of Anna, I student I taught last year. Leo fell from about the 3rd floor of a building and suffered severe head injuries, which obviously affected his brain. He was unable to breath by himself and was unconscious for some time...indeed, he was in a coma. He also had some fractures, but they were treatable. There were also complications with his stomach area.
The long-term prognosis was grim...a miracle was needed.
I heard about it - my wife & I promised to pray for this young man. We got other people involved in praying too.
Before Christmas, things looked to be getting worse (if they could have got any worse!) - he had a stroke...internal problems... By Friday 30.12.2011, his whole body was septic and he stopped to breathing, and when doctors wanted him to start to breathe on a ventilator a (tube to his mouth and lungs) he had a cardiac arrest. The doctors tried to resuscitate him for half an hour! (By now, Leo's brain had been without oxygen for a very long time.) On that very evening, the doctors also told Anna that she & her family would see him for the last time...that he was dying and could no longer live... His lungs were terribly damaged,and the last part of the lungs was only just working (but only with the ventilator on 100% of oxygen and at the highest pressure)...
The long-term prognosis was grim...a miracle was needed.
I heard about it - my wife & I promised to pray for this young man. We got other people involved in praying too.
Before Christmas, things looked to be getting worse (if they could have got any worse!) - he had a stroke...internal problems... By Friday 30.12.2011, his whole body was septic and he stopped to breathing, and when doctors wanted him to start to breathe on a ventilator a (tube to his mouth and lungs) he had a cardiac arrest. The doctors tried to resuscitate him for half an hour! (By now, Leo's brain had been without oxygen for a very long time.) On that very evening, the doctors also told Anna that she & her family would see him for the last time...that he was dying and could no longer live... His lungs were terribly damaged,and the last part of the lungs was only just working (but only with the ventilator on 100% of oxygen and at the highest pressure)...
The next day... he was still alive!
In the middle of January they said he would never get his mind back, or would be deeply and even mentally disturbed - there was nothing else to hope for...
And then Leo began to get better every day. Little by little he started to move his hands, then his legs, and then he finally opened his eyes. At last, about 2 weeks ago (2.2.12) he could shake his head as a 'YES' or 'NO', and two days after that, on the 4th February, he started to talk!! He moved his arm. He remembers some things... Leo told them that St. Mary is all-powerful, and that he saw her in a tunnel he saw on New Year's Eve.
And so, Leo is back in the land of the living!
If that isn't a miracle...then I don't know what is...!!!!
(note!!! I have Anna's permission to share this story! :-))
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