Vanessa Tanasio suffered a major heart attack last week. By the time the 41-year-old Australian mom of two got to the hospital, she was declared clinically dead. But then, thanks to a revolutionary machine, she was brought back to life after 42 minutes and is now doing and feeling "excellent." Tanasio has been called a "miracle patient" and it's obvious why.
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In a way, I guess you could say this woman got real lucky because she was taken to the one and only hospital that owns the high tech compression device that saved her life. It allowed blood to keep flowing to Tanasio's brain while doctors unblocked one of her main arteries.
The machine had been used successfully only once before, but not on someone who'd been clinically dead for so long. I'm sure Tanasio, who didn't have a history of heart failure, is feeling like the most fortunate person on earth right now and I would be too.
"I was dead for nearly an hour and only a week later I feel great. It's surreal," she told the Agence France-Presse. I think surreal is the perfect way to describe this as she would probably be dead if it weren't for the compression machine. The crazy thing is that not only is she still alive, but she's feeling as if nothing ever happened to her.
I can only imagine how thankful her two kids, ages 8 and 11, and the rest of her family must be feeling. What a miraculous story!
Image via abc.net.au
