LifeSiteNews reports :
65-year-old Raleane “Rae” Kupferschmidt’s relatives were told by doctors that she was “brain dead” after she had suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage in mid-January. Her family had taken her home to die and were in the process of grieving and planning her funeral when she awoke and was rushed back to hospital.
In accordance with her own wishes, doctors had removed Rae’s breathing tube and were waiting for her to die. She was taken home from the hospital, and while friends and family gathered to say a last good bye, Kupferschmidt’s daughter Lisa Sturm used an ice cube to wet her mother’s dry lips. When her mother sucked on the ice cube, she thought it was only an instinctive reaction. She said, “I knew suckling is a very basic brain stem function, so I didn’t get real excited. But when I did it again she just about sucked the ice cube out of my hand, and I looked at my aunt and said, ‘Did you see that?’”
“So I leaned down and asked, ‘Mom . . . Mom, are you in there?’” Sturm said. “And when she shook her head and mouthed, ‘Yes,’ we all just about fell over.”
Rae was rushed back to the hospital and underwent surgery to drain the blood clot from her skull. After surgery, she recovered her strength and is now undergoing physical therapy and can walk with the aid of a walker. Doctors expect her to be walking on her own within weeks. Rae says she does not remember anything during her coma.
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Doctors at United Hospital said they are amazed by Rae Kupferschmidt’s recovery. One told Good Morning America, “I’ve been here for ten years and I’ve never seen anything quite like this.”
Rae told Good Morning America, “God’s got something for me to do. When I learn it, I’ll unfold it and follow it.”
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