Scott Marr's children decided to pull the plug after he was
declared brain dead. They said their final good-byes and were preparing his
services.
But the "miracle man" had a different plan. After
being unconscious for two days, he unexpectedly woke up after his doctors
thought there was no hope of recovery and his breathing tubes were pulled out.
Now, he's recovering at home after weeks of therapy at an Omaha hospital.
"This whole thing has been a miracle from God,"
Marr told KMTV. "I did not die. I didn't have to die. I'm back here, and I
hope to give people some comfort and hope that if they are, in fact, going through
anything like that, that it's a safe place."
In the two days Marr was unconscious, he said he had what
some might call a near-death experience. He saw his late father walking along
the street.
“He said, 'What are you doing here?' And I said I’m looking
to work and he said, 'There’s no work here, you better get your butt home,'”
Marr told local reporters.
His son, Drew, found his father Dec. 12 unresponsive, but
still breathing, on his bed. He was rushed to Methodist Hospital and placed on
a breathing machine in intensive care.
Doctors initially said the former basketball announcer had
suffered a stroke, but they were worried that his case had reached an
irreversible process, leading to brain death.
"Each time we would leave the hospital, we would kind
of say our final goodbyes," his daughter, Preston Marr, told Fox News.
"We thought we would never hear his voice again, see him open his eyes,
and see who we were."
But all the changed after the plug was pulled. Preston was
the first to see him begin to miraculously respond.
"It was surreal and my heart is beating out of my chest
just thinking about it again," she said, "I keep replaying it in my
head of him laying in his hospital bed, then smiling, and then moving his
thumbs and then wiggling his toes, and then saying I love you."
She said it's almost unbelievable that he's well enough now
to make himself peanut butter toast.
"It takes me a minute to be in the moment and truly
realize what all this really means because the alternative would be he would be
gone and I don't," she said, "...just to be with him and he's walking
around. It's just really incredible."
After doctors did further testing, they found that Marr was
suffering from a rare condition called posterior reversible encephalopathy
syndrome, or PRES, which is commonly caused by high blood pressure. But the
doctors said the severe swelling Marr experienced was not atypical.
While miraculous, the process of recovery is still ongoing.
"He had to get his strength back," said Preston, a
registered nurse at the stroke unit at Immanuel Medical Center. "He still
needs 24-hour supervision right now because his brain went through a lot. He's
having to retrain his brain."
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