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Issue No. 1 March 1999 |
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Resurrection A transformation from virtual death to joyful life
February 10,1998 To whom it may concern: Going back to September 1995, my mother, Rosa Campanaro, 66, was hospitalized for a simple procedure, an angioplasty, after having a minor heart attack. We never expected the worst to happen. After having the angioplasty, little by little my mother was suffering pain in her body that was kind of odd to the doctors. By a couple of weeks later, she was going through kidney failure and other organ failures. When a biopsy was done, it was soon discovered that she has been suffering a very rare effect which was known as “crystals” (cholesterol emboli). Instead of her body dissolving the plaque that was broken off, they turned into actual crystals that would travel through her blood stream, lodge on to whatever organ, and then actually “cut” its way through resulting in organ failure. By Christmastime, my mother had gone through three cardiac arrests where CPR was performed and all during those arrests, I prayed on my knees at the hospital and begged Our Lord to give her a second chance in life. Because of the cardiac arrests, the doctors said she would need another angioplasty being that the artery had collapsed. After the second angioplasty, everything went downhill. My mother had slipped into a stage five (the worst) coma. She was also on daily dialysis and hemorrhaging throughout her body. She was on a respirator and every kind of life-support machine you could imagine. She went through multi-organ failure (where all organs stopped functioning). They told us to make funeral arrangements because she would never make it. They also asked us to remove life-support because it was hopeless, but my brother and I couldn’t do it. We asked God to do what was right with Him.
During all this, I made sure the blessed rose petal and brown Scapular was around my mother’s neck. Day after day, I prayed the rosaries in her ears so that she might possibly hear me while lying in her coma. My mother is a very religious person who prayed everyday to Our Lady of the Roses before this happened to her, and we used to go to Bayside for so many years together. I used to pray and talk to her, and I used to pray to Our Lady of the Roses everyday. At the end of my prayers, I used to ask Our Lady to “hold her hands during her hours of pain” because I knew that my mother adored her so much and in a way, I felt that this was comforting. I also said novenas, praying to St. Theresa. After so many months had passed by, one day I was walking through the hallways of the hospital and by her room, I could smell the scent of roses! And sure enough my mother shortly thereafter started coming out of her coma!
None of the doctors could believe what was happening. Every single person did not think she could possibly come out of this coma at all. Then they thought there would be brain damage, which there was not. In the beginning, she was a little foggy, but eventually everything came back. In her mind, she is completely normal. In her body, she has lost some mobility, but slowly and surely, it is coming back to her with time and her prayers to Our Lady of the Roses. She is living with me and my family and in time, I know she is getting back to recovery. My
mother is a true believer, and I too really, really believe there could
be nothing more clear than this being a MIRACLE. I love my mother so
much, and I thank God everyday for her. Please believe me when I tell
you that this is a true miracle! |
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Doctor's Statement
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Burden
Lifted G.
C.
Prodigal
Son J.
F.
A
Beautiful Anniversary Vigil Barbara
Fuller
Kidney
Stones Vanish Mrs.
Hylla
First-time
Incredible James
Katzin
Reconciled A.
R.
Touched
My Heart Roseann
Merrill
No
Cancer Evelyn
R. Sciales
Pro-life
March Harry
Herrle |
