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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 10:15 pm 
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Woman wakes up after being dead 17 hours; Rigor Mortis had set in

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Woman Wakes Up After Family Says Goodbye, Tubes Pulled
Patient Brought To Cleveland Clinic

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A West Virginia woman was being transferred to the Cleveland Clinic after walking the line between life and death.

Doctors are calling Val Thomas a medical miracle. They said they can't explain how she is alive.

They said Thomas suffered two heart attacks and had no brain waves for more than 17 hours. At about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, her heart stopped and she had no pulse. A respiratory machine kept her breathing and rigor mortis had set in, doctors said.

"Her skin had already started to harden and her fingers curled. Death had set in," said son Jim Thomas.


They rushed her to a West Virginia hospital. Doctors put Thomas on a special machine which induces hypothermia. The treatment involves lowering the body temperature for up to 24 hours before warming a patient up.

After that procedure, her heart stopped again.

"She had no neurological function," said Dr. Kevin Eggleston.

Her family said goodbye and doctors removed all the tubes.

However, Thomas was kept on a ventilator a little while longer as an organ donor issue was discussed.

Ten minutes later the woman woke up and started talking.


"She (nurse) said, 'I'm so sorry Mrs. Thomas.' And mom said, 'That's OK honey. That's OK," Jim Thomas said.

Val Thomas and her family strongly believe that the Lord granted them their miracle and they want everyone to know.

"I know God has something in store for me, another purpose. I don't know what it is but I'm sure he'll tell me," she said.

She was taken to the Cleveland Clinic for specialist to check her out. Doctors said amazingly she has no blockage and will be fine.


Time to make sure I'm a organ donor. :bowdown:

Edit: Oh wow there appears to be a similar situation where a actually died and was not on any sort of machine any more. He was moved to the hospital "morgue", and a couple of hours later he woke up. Scared the shit out of the morgue attendant. The morgue attendant then had a heart attack and died... :?

In other news, the first zombie outbreak started in Cleveland.


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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:15 pm 
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Zombies are becoming real. I'm glad I've played every RE game now, I'm going to survive. AFK heading to my basement with rations and gallons of water.

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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:47 pm 
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Gotsta go to Dicks sporting goods, they gots all the gewd shit, crossbows and all that fun stuff! Time to kill me some zombies :pissed: !

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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 12:26 am 
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Kooyo wrote:
Gotsta go to Dicks sporting goods, they gots all the gewd shit, crossbows and all that fun stuff! Time to kill me some zombies :pissed: !


don't forget, better pickup some bug spray (for those giant mutant bugs) and some green herbs.

on that note, AFK mowing lawn to be ready for zombie invasion.


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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:20 pm 
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Killer wrote:
Zombies are becoming real. I'm glad I've played every RE game now, I'm going to survive. AFK heading to my basement with rations and gallons of water.

Unfortunately Killer made this post before I read the thread. Woulda been my post ;/

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