PRAISE GOD FOR THIS MIRACLE! A Florida mother is home and tending to her new infant less than a month after surviving without a pulse for 45 minutes following complications from a routine cesarean section.
A spokesman for Boca Raton Regional Hospital said that a team of medical workers spent three hours attempting to revive the woman after a rare amniotic fluid embolism.
Spokesman Thomas Chakurda says the doctors were preparing to pronounce her death when a blip on a monitor indicated a heartbeat. Despite going 45 minutes without a pulse, she suffered no brain damage during the Sept. 23 ordeal.
“She essentially spontaneously resuscitated when we were about to call the time of death,” said Thomas Chakurda, the hospital spokesman.
Doctors had called the family into the operating room and told them there was nothing more they could do for 40-year-old Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro.
Graupera-Cassimiro gave birth to a healthy daughter before amniotic fluid entered her bloodstream and heart and created a vacuum, stopping circulation. Doctors say condition is often fatal.
Chakurda said the woman’s survival is a story of two miracles – her resuscitation and the fact that she survived without serious brain damage.
Medical workers used shock paddles and chest compressions throughout the emergency to try and restore heart beat and circulation, Chakurda said.
“Today she is the picture of health,” he said.
Doctors had no immediate explanation for her survival, Chakurda said, calling her case one of “divine providence.”
Graupera-Cassimiro said that the experience has taught her not to be afraid of death.
“I realize through all of this that one, we really don’t really have control of our lives,” she said. “The day you go is the day that you were destined to go.”
“I remember seeing a spiritual being who I believe was my dad,” she said. “I remember the light behind him and many other spiritual beings.”
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