Lorna Baillie was declared dead after she suffered a massive heart
attack, but astonished doctors and her grieving family when she suddenly
came back to life. Relatives of Baillie were devastated when a team of
doctors withdrew treatment after spending three hours trying to revive
her.
The family gathered around her hospital bed to say their goodbyes
after doctors told them the 49-year-old grandmother was ‘technically
dead’, being kept artificially alive only by a combination of
adrenaline, electric shocks and CPR.
It was then, 45 minutes later, that Mrs Baillie’s disabled husband
John, 58, whispered ‘I love you’ to his wife. As John, his son and three
daughters sat beside Mrs Baillie, they were surprised to see her colour
gradually improve. A nurse present in the room assured them this was a
normal side effect of prolonged emergency treatment.
And when Mrs Baillie’s eyelids flickered and she appeared to squeeze
her eldest daughter Leanne’s hand, the nurse again assured the family
that ‘involuntary movements’ were to be expected. Unconvinced, the
family demanded the nurse call in a doctor, who found a pulse and rushed
Mrs Baillie to intensive care.
Daughter Leanne Porteous, 31, said: ‘I asked the nurse if it was
normal that she squeezed my hand and that she had opened her eyes and
she said it was. 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”. At one point my dad said,
“Lorna come back, I love you,” and then –just like that – she was there
again.’
Two weeks later, the former auxiliary nurse from Prestonpans, East
Lothian, has even managed some ‘high-fives’ after sitting up in bed and
communicating with her family. Mrs Baillie, a keen gardener and dog
walker, collapsed at her home at 4.30pm on February 10. Paramedics
battled to resuscitate her before taking her to Edinburgh’s Royal
Infirmary where, at 8.45pm, a doctor told the family she had died.
Leanne said: ‘His words were that she was technically dead, but they
had to wait until she had stopped breathing before they could pronounce
her medically dead.’
Mrs Baillie’s miraculous signs of recovery followed, but medics
warned that her chances of survival remained slim because her kidneys
had failed and she was in a coma.
The family were still so worried that her daughter Charlene, 23,
asked the hospital chaplain to obtain a special licence to allow her to
get married by her mother’s bedside. But Mrs Baillie’s condition
continued to improve and last week she was moved from intensive care to a
medical ward. An MRI scan recently revealed no obvious brain damage.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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