Saturday, June 20, 2009
Parents cradle baby for last time after life support is switched off... but then she came back to life
They are holding her as tightly as they can because they know it will be for the very last time.
After deciding to turn their six-week-old daughter's life-support system off, Pete Vincent and Emily Ashurst cradled her in their arms and waited for her to slip quietly away.
But Grace had other ideas. The little girl given only a 1 per cent chance of survival after contracting meningitis suddenly started to breathe on her own.
To her parents' amazement and delight, she has surely and steadily continued her extraordinary recovery. Yesterday, she was well enough to leave hospital and go home.
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