In 1993, a teen driver ran a red light, and totaled Julie Papievis’ sports car, with Julie inside. When paramedics recovered her from the wreckage, she had no pulse, no breath, and was on the brink of death.
Like the story of a baby returned from death by his mother’s touch, what came next is a story so unlikely that doctors call it nothing short of "miraculous."
In her accident, her brainstem was nearly severed, all but ending her brain’s ability to function. Dr. John Shea was the doctor on-call when Julie was brought into the ER, and never expected her to last the night.
According to Dr. Shea, “With the type of injury Julie had, she had a 4% chance of survival. Most people…if they survive…very often are in a nursing home in a severe disability or persistent vegetative state.”
But Julie not only survived, she woke from her coma a month later. She learned how to speak again, like this fellow coma survivor. Eventually, she regained the use of her left side, and kept working to improve, fueled by an experience she had in her coma.
Julie believes that she was given the opportunity to experience Heaven.
“It was so vast,” she explains, “and there was no real beginning or end to it. It was just perfect peace.”
While she was there, she spoke with her grandmothers, who assured her that her body would heal. It was faith in their words that carried Julie through the arduous therapy, and pushed her to train for her first 5k just six years after the devastating accident.
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