Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:18 AM PST
By Nadine Bells, Good News, 27 Feb, 2012
On February 10th, 49-year-old grandmother Lorna Baillie suffered a massive heart attack. Medics tried to revive her for three hours. She was being kept alive only by a combination of electric shocks, CPR and adrenaline when her husband, son, and three daughters were brought in to say their goodbyes.
The doctor’s “words were that she was technically dead, but they had to wait until she had stopped breathing before they could pronounce her medically dead,” said Leanne Porteous, 31, Baillie’s daughter.
Forty-five minutes after Baillie was deemed “technically dead,” her 58-year-old husband, John, whispered “I love you” to his wife.
Her colour slowly started improving.
“We noticed the colour start to come back to her face and body. I assumed it was a normal reaction to all the medicine,” Porteous told The Daily Record.
Then her eyelids flickered.
Then she squeezed her eldest daughter’s hand.
A nurse suggested it was an involuntary movement, and should be expected.
Unsatisfied with the response, Baillie’s family insisted on seeing a doctor. The doctor found a pulse and immediately rushed the woman to intensive care.
“We are so close as a family and we are not the kind of people to just give up. We were telling my mum to be strong. I kept saying to her, ‘Come back, Mum, come back,’” said Porteous.
“At one point my dad said, ‘Lorna come back, I love you,’ and then—just like that—she was there again.”
Now two weeks later, Baillie is sitting up and communicating with loved ones.
“It’s amazing the improvement, it has put a smile on all our faces. She is nodding and shaking her head and giving us high fives,” Porteous said.
An MRI scan revealed no visible brain damage.
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