I've been following the story of the teenage boy in Alabama who was pronounced brain dead. His parents had just signed the paperwork for organ donation when all of a sudden he began to respond. He has now said that while he was unconscious (my confusion is that he was supposedly brain dead) he walked along a field and he believes he was in heaven. Then later his mom says the color of his eyes has changed and that is a sure sign he was reborn. I am shaking my head in confusion and wonderment. Was he really not brain dead and the doctors called it incorrectly? Can a brain dead person return to a state of near normalcy after 15 minutes of being in that state? I know he wasn't in "heaven" but if he was dreaming would that not indicate he could not have been brain dead? What do you think of this news story?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Obviously the dr. was wrong..........
Dhiltong
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May 7, 2018
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Or the health tech who affixes electrodes for brain monitoring who may not be the cardiac tech, surgical nurses, attending physician and who knows who else bumped a brain electrode or more loose. ...people "believe" medical people like clergy with little or no demand for proof/evidence. ...especially in life&death situations: military, cops, judges, lawyers but NOT POLITICIANS & USED CAR SALES AGENTS who control taxes and the black boxes of engineering
The mind is an amazing thing. It has the ability to in a sense rewire itself to fix damaged area. But since this was only 15 minutes I doubt any real damage could be sufficiently repaired in such a short amount of time. (It takes quite awhile for this to happen and then it's only minimal repair that's done from my understanding). The dream where he says he believes he was in heaven, well it could have been anything the brain subconsciously remembered that he attributes that to. As for the eye thing I can't answer that but don't see any real divine intervention here. More likely minimal but active brain activity was missed by medical staff. It happens.
DaneintheUS
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May 7, 2018
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Sounds like they used his eyes rolling back into his head as an excuse to delay him getting Schiavoed.
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