South Jersey Woman Comes Out of Coma Before Plug is Pulled
Could this be a miracle?
Joan Wensel of Avalon was declared 'brain-dead' by doctors after being discovered face-down on the floor of her home by her husband. She had no pulse and the color of her skin turned blue. Thanks to the quick thinking EMTs and first responders who contiued to give Wensel CPR for over 45 minute before taking her to Cape Regional Medical Center. Joan was quickly moved to Penn Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia where she contiuned to have no pulse or any brain activity.
The family then made the tough and agonizing decision of pulling the plug. Joan Wensel, beloved wife and mother, woke up from her coma before her family had a chance to pull the plug and turn off her ventilator.
According to the Press of Atlantic City, Joan was unaware of the drama taking place around her. “I was basically somewhere else,” she said. “I was with angels.” Four tall figures in white gowns whose faces she could not see guided her down a hallway toward a bright light, she said. When she looked up, she saw broad shoulders and a sword. She recognized the backlit figure as St. Michael, defender against evil for whom her oldest son is named. He must have told them it wasn’t my time,” she said.
Joan awoke from her coma and started to wave to a stunned and freaked out nurse.
Six months after she was given up for dead, Joan Wensel is grateful for her life but troubled by a question to which there is no answer. “As a nurse,” she said, “I wonder how many people we’ve pulled the plug on. I had no outward sign of brain waves, but I was in there.”
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