Ohio woman was taken off life support and then woke up
- Eloise Barnette, 75, from Ohio was unresponsive one morning in October
- She was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered her kidneys were failing
- After no sign of improvement, she was taken off life support in November
- Two days later, she woke up in what doctors are calling a ‘miracle’
Mary Kekatos For Dailymail.com
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Two months ago, Eloise Barnette’s family was tearfully getting ready to say goodbye.
The 75-year-old grandmother-of-two and great-grandmother-of-three had been lying unresponsive in an Ohio hospital for four weeks.
Her family had made the decision to take her off life support in November.
But two days later, to their astonishment, she woke up.
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Miraculous: Eloise Barnette, 75, a grandmother-of-two and great-grandmother-of-three (pictured here with her husband Dale) ‘miraculously’ woke up after being unresponsive for over a month in the hospital
Tragic: Dale said Eloise was unresponsive one morning in October and rushed her to Mount Carmel West hospital. She had a fever of 104F
‘Everybody’s definition of miracles are different, but it’s a miracle to me because I’ve never seen it happen,’ Dr Matt Wooten, Eloise’s lead physician, told NBC4.
Twelve weeks ago, Eloise’s husband, Dale, was unable to wake her up in the morning – and she was rushed to Mount Carmel West hospital.
‘One organ after another started failing. They’d fix one and something else would go wrong,’ Dale told NBC4.
Doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong. She arrived with a temperature of 104F. Stroke, meningitis, and a brain infection were all ruled out.
Tests finally showed that her kidneys were failing, so Eloise was put on dialysis. Her blood pressure dropped steeply.
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After signs showed she wasn’t getting better, her family decided to take her off her ventilator on November 19 – but Eloise kept breathing.
Dale said: ‘We stayed there and just waited for her to go. We just kept praying.
‘She mouthed, “I love you” and I knew she was in there.’
Two days later, Dr Matt Wooten, who had been treating Eloise, went down to palliative care to check on his patient.
‘When I went down there, she opened her eyes and started talking to me. It really surprised me,’ Dr Wooten said.
Eloise said she was surprised by the circumstances herself, believing her recovery to be a ‘miracle’.
Eloise (pictured here with her daughter Beverly) from Mount Sterling, Ohio, was discovered to be suffering from kidney failure and was put on dialysis. After no signs of improvement showed, her family decided to take her off life support
Dr Matt Wooten went to check on his patient two days later – and she had woken up. ‘When I went down there, she opened her eyes and started talking to me. It really surprised me,’ he said
Eloise called her recovery a ‘miracle’ and believes it was because of her strong will that she made it through. ‘I have a lot of fight in me and it keeps me going,’ she said
Now back at home, Eloise said she knew it wasn’t her time yet and the experience taught her: ‘No matter what happens to you, don’t give up hope’
She told NBC4: ‘They didn’t see any chance of me coming out of this and they thought it would be best to just let me go.
‘I have a lot of fight in me and it keeps me going.’
Eloise was transferred to Meadow Grove Transitional Care Center. Although she didn’t make any progress for weeks, she eventually started to stand up.
‘If it wasn’t for the therapy department, I don’t think I would have made it,’ said Eloise.
‘No matter what happens to you, don’t give up hope.’
Doctors remain baffled as to why Eloise’s kidneys failed and how she made such an astonishing recovery.
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