Check this out! Its amazing!..I read this
story on the news from california..Its a
great miracle story about a baby and her
mom!
Mother lives to tell about dying after
giving birth
woman describes moments she was clinically
dead
san diego -- deb foster has a new outlook
on life. Nearly a half-hour after
delivering her second child, bryce
allyson, by caesarean section, a rare
event took foster, (pictured, left), to
the brink of death, 10news reported.
Woman reunited with doctor who saved her
life
"i have never seen it and I have been a
nurse for 21 years," said a scripps mercy
hospital nurse.
Foster had an amniotic fluid embolism that
was ready to explode at any moment.
"as they moved me from the recovery room
gurney to the actual hospital bed ... The
embolism came loose," she told 10news.
"it started to shut down my lungs, which
then caused me to go into cardiac arrest
and that's when I was gone."
foster said she went "somewhere else."
"i was on the other side -- on a staircase
that went up very high into the sky ...
It's indescribable, the color of the sky.
It's the deepest, purest blue you will
ever see. It was the perfect moment,"
foster said.
She was pronounced clinically dead.
"i would hear people say, 'she doesn't
have a brachial. She doesn't have a
radial. She's not responding,'" foster
said. "here I am, 42 years old, and I
never thought I would go this soon and I
never thought I would die in this way."
a team of doctors and nurses from all over
the hospital worked to revive her, whose
body was shutting down.
But something brought her back.
"i heard her voice say, 'deb, this is Dr.
(vivian) ellis. You just delivered a
beautiful baby and I need you to hang in
there. I am going to try and save you,'"
foster told 10news.
Ellis did save foster.
"we always said we were soul sisters and
that's what it feels like right now,"
ellis told 10news.
The first time foster saw the woman who
helped bring her back to life, she wanted
to know all the details of her life and
death experience.
"what are you thinking as you work on a
person?" she asked ellis.
"i talked to you and I was trying to tell
you what I was doing and I knew that help
was on its way," ellis told her.
Foster said that help is the reason she is
still here caring for her baby girl,
bryce.
"i can tell you how important it is for
people to be giving someone hope because
over and over someone kept telling me,
'you have to hang in there for your
children,'" foster said.
Ellis still marvels at how foster beat the
odds -- 85 percent of women die from an
amniotic fluid embolism.
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