A couple of Wednesdays ago, I got an evening
phone call from the pediatric ICU at
Presbyterian Hospital, in Charlotte, NC, where
I work as a child life specialist. Usually when
they call at night, it means something bad has
happened. This, however, was different. My
coworker told me that the most amazing thing
had just happened and she just had to call to
tell me.
We had a patient who has really grown up in
and out of the hospital. All the staff knows
her and her family. She had been in the
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for about
a month, and had been intubated – on life
support. She was not been doing well. The
doctors had approached her mom about
taking her off life support the Saturday
before. Mom was okay with it, and said that
she’d been through so much and if it was her
time to go she wanted to honor that. So they
took her off.
It was Wednesday and she was still alive.
Amazingly! The doctors approached mom
about taking off her oxygen mask. Mom was
supportive, and began praying over her
daughter. The mother of another young patient
who was in the bed next to her began praying
with her.
The nurse practitioner went to the nurses’
station to chart that she had taken off the
oxygen mask. While doing so, she looked up at
the security monitor that videotapes the
double doors leading into the PICU. It records
anyone who may be waiting outside the doors
to get in since it is a secured unit. She saw a
man standing there, and it looked a little
funny to her, so she decided to walk down the
hall to open the double doors personally.
When she opened them, no one was standing
there.
She walked back down to the nurses station to
finish charting, assuming he had walked away,
but saw him still standing there on the
monitor. So she opened the doors with a
button near the nurses’ station and leaned
over to see him walk in, but no one was
standing there.
She pulled over another nurse and both stood
staring at this man on the monitor and
opening the doors to find no one there. The
nurse practitioner leaned in closely to look at
the man on the monitor and said, ‘Oh my
gosh. That’s an angel! You can see his wings!’
They said that the sun starting shining so
brightly and the whole PICU was strangely
filled with light. They said he was a tall man
and you could see wings behind him.
They pulled over all the staff of the PICU and
the two praying mothers and everyone was
staring at this man on the monitor and
opening the doors to find no one there.
Crying, everyone pulled out their camera
phones to take pictures, but no one could get
it to show up on their camera. The mother of
the girl pulled out her camera phone and
finally got a picture of the angel who was
guarding the doors to the PICU. He turned out
as a man of light. I have attached the picture
from her phone.
The girl was later discharged from the
hospital to go home. A Miracle.
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