"I have no doubt whatsoever that prayer kept us going in our darkest days."
By Susan Michelle-Hanson
Live Action News
The doctors wanted to harvest her organs, but her husband believed there was still hope for her. Thanks to his resolve, today, he still has his wife, as well as a baby.
The Daily Mail reported recently on the story of Alexander Way and his wife Beatrice. The couple, aged 44 and 42, respectively, found themselves in a life or death crisis six years ago when Beatrice had a heart attack which resulted in a coma.
The story tells how “stunned” Alexander was by the doctors’ response to his wife’s illness. The story reports:
‘The doctors insisted Beatrice had very little brain response and that there was no way she could ever improve. If she did wake up at all she would barely respond to others. She would also be blind.
A lot of words were exchanged. In no uncertain terms I told them, “Don’t switch off my wife’s life support”.’
He continued: ‘I was stunned, angry and felt they were ending my wife’s life without considering further treatment. I was adamant that more could be done.’
Doctors also asked whether he would donate her organs for transplants.
Alexander wasn’t buying it. In a coma, Beatrice was sent to a neurological unit with specialists to treat her:
Four weeks later [she] woke up in hospital. The mother-of-one later learned she had suffered the attack due to a heart defect called congenital hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. She went through nine months of rehabilitation to overcome paralysis she had suffered on her left side.
Eventually Beatrice made a a complete and “miraculous” recovery.
Then the couple embarked on another nine month journey when Beatrice became pregnant – something her doctors had warned against. Last year baby Rosemary was born, deemed a second miracle for the family that refused to believe the doctors’ dooming words over their lives.
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