God still works
Miracles
I've survived many life-threatening incidents over the years. ...well, technically, I died multiple times,
but God always throws me back!
Rebecca Reilly Shelhart
Heart Princess
MY FIRST BRUSH WITH DEATH
My heart had stopped about 40 minutes earlier, but my parents insisted that I be resuscitated, against medical advice. I was 1 week old.
A new cardiac procedure had been approved a month earlier, but my doctors were hesitant. Even, if I survived the operation, they were certain I'd never wake. I'd simply been dead too long. With kindness & compassion, the doctors advised my parents to say goodbye and let me go.
(Spoiler Alert! : My parents didn’t listen.)
I was dubbed "The Miracle Baby" by the local papers. At the age of 5, I became the Princess for American Heart Association (for the Blackstone Valley region of Massachusetts.)