Back to life after 17 hours
A US woman came back to life after she was presumed dead when her heart stopped and she was taken off life support.
Velma Thomas, 59, from Nitro, West Virginia, was put on a life support machine after she suffered a heart attack at home.
For more than 17 hours doctors failed to detect any brain activity, despite extensive attempts to revive her, including pioneering treatment to lower her body's temperature in a bid to stimulate the brain.
Tim Thomas, Velma's son, said he and two dozen relatives and friends gathered at the hospital and "prayed and prayed and prayed" before starting to accept she would not survive.
"I came to the conclusion she wasn't going to make it," Mr Thomas, 36, told the Charleston Daily Mail.
"Her skin had already started hardening, her hands and toes were curling up, they were already drawn. There was no life there."
The family decided to turn off life support and say their goodbyes. But as they began making funeral arrangements, Mr Thomas was contacted by the hospital and told his mother had come back to life.
By the time Mr Thomas got back to the hospital, "She had already asked, "Where's my son?"," he told the Charleston Daily Mail.
Kevin Eggleston, a internal medicine specialist, told ABC News: "There were really no signs she had neurological functions. It's a miracle. The odds were certainly against her."
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