Brain aneurysm, coma survivor points to prayer
“I think what happened is that the angels got tired of answering the phone.”
“One day I told my wife, ‘I don’t feel well. I’m going to lie down and take a nap.’ She was going to school at the time. When she came back from class, she couldn’t wake me up. She told my son to call 911. Next thing they knew, I was in an ambulance heading to Hermann Hospital in Houston.
“I had suffered a brain aneurysm. They had to remove a portion of my skull and do surgery. Afterwards, they put me in a medically induced coma. I was out of it for seven months.
“When I came to and they brought me home to recover, they had me in a hospital bed by a window so I could see out. Eventually, I went from a wheelchair to a walker to crutches to a cane. I was doing physical therapy at a rehab place in Baytown that we just loved. They were so good to me. Every day, they had me do a little bit more.
“There was a long time when I was expected to die. The doctors tried to prepare my wife for my death. They were trying to tell her to prepare my children for my death. She kind of got in one doctor’s face and said, ‘Do you believe in God?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ And she said, ‘Well, so do I. And God made my husband, and God will decide when he dies.’
“It turned out there were hundreds of people praying for me — family, friends, everybody was praying. So I think what happened is that the angels got tired of answering the phone. They went to God and said, ‘Will you fix that man so we can get some rest up here?’ So, here I am.”
— Keith Dick
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