{"id":192370,"date":"2018-12-10T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=192370"},"modified":"2018-12-12T07:39:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T13:39:53","slug":"womans-family-life-support-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/womans-family-life-support-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman’s family turns off life support… and a miracle happens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman in Michigan is a living miracle after doctors said she would not survive and convinced her family to turn off life support. Michele De Leeuw<\/a>, 57, had suffered a heart attack in August and was without oxygen for 15 minutes. When paramedics got her to the hospital, her husband Karl thought she was dead, but De Leeuw had other plans.<\/p>\n

“When my father called me after she was rushed to the hospital… he felt that she was dead,” said the couple’s daughter, Myles De Leeuw, 24. “It was the most earth-shattering phone call of my young life. It was horrible to see my mother on more IVs and tubes than you can ever imagine.”<\/p>\n

De Leeuw, however, was alive, but doctors told her family that she had just five percent brain function and 25 percent heart function. They told Karl, “The woman that you know as your wife is not there anymore.” He decided to turn off the ventilator.<\/p>\n

“When we pulled the plug, it was just so sad to start living with the reality that my mom is dead,” said Myles De Leeuw.<\/p>\n

But De Leeuw began breathing on her own. However, doctors still weren’t convinced she would recover because she hadn’t regained consciousness. She was put into “comfort care” for patients who are believed to have little time left to live.<\/p>\n

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