Doctor Calls Near-Death Experience a 'Miracle'

Hospital Took Velma Thomas off Life Support -- Then She Woke Up
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By GIGI STONE, TRACEY MARX and STEPHANIE DAHLE
May 24, 2008
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Velma Thomas' heart stopped beating three times -- and her doctors thought she was dead.
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She was taken by ambulance to a local West Virginia hospital when her heart stopped after experiencing symptoms of a heart attack. For more than 17 hours, Thomas had no measurable brain waves, according to her doctors.
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Doctors tried everything to save Thomas' life, even inducing hypothermia in an attempt to lower her body temperature and stimulate the brain.
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Her family said their goodbyes and left her side at the hospital to make funeral plans.
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But after medical staff took Thomas off life support, she miraculously came back to life.
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"I said, 'God, just show me something,'" her nephew, Daniel Pence, told ABC News.
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"There were really no signs she had neurological functions," Kevin Eggleston, an internist, told ABC News.
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"There was no life there," her son, Tim Thomas, told the Charleston Daily Mail. "Her skin had already started hardening, her hands and toes were curling up."
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