The Family was selecting Mother’s gravestone when she woke up from COVID Coma

Hours before a family was about to take their 69-year-old mother off of life support after being in a coma with COVID, she miraculously woke up, according to published reports.

“They told us, ‘Your mother is never going to wake up,” Andrew Lerman told The Washington Post regarding his mother, Bettina Larson, who had been on a ventilator since September in a hospital in Portland, Maine.

Lerman and his siblings had started selecting a gravestone, planning her funeral, and figuring out the outfit she was going to wear. They also canceled her lease and donated many of her possessions, the news outlet reported.

On Oct. 29 everything changed.

Lerman said the doctor called and told them to get to the hospital right away. Andrew, concerned, asked the doctor what was wrong. The doctor told him, “Well your mother just woke up,” People reported.

“I was completely beside myself,” Lerman told The Washington Post. “I dropped the phone because I was going to be terminating life support that day.”

Andrew said his mother was unvaccinated and had recently undergone quadruple-bypasss surgery, and also suffers from diabetes, People reported.

In September, Bettina Lerman traveled from her home in Florida to Maine to help her son and daughter-in-law help care for Andrew’His father has stage 4 cancer. Andrew stated that everyone contracted COVID during her stay. Andrew, who was not vaccinated said that getting sick was the worst thing. “brutal,”However, he claimed that he had, with his wife and father, recovered, according to the Post.

Andrew said doctors told him that his mother’s lungs “were destroyed,” “thought there was no chance of survival at that point,” People reported.

Lerman stated that his mother had been planning to get vaccinated before she left Florida. But she ran out of time and got sick.

The family is grateful to her for her recovery. “give her words of encouragement everyday.”

“We tell her to keep on fighting,”Lerman said.

Since then, she has been released from intensive care and can now breathe without oxygen support.

The family built a GoFundMe They can help pay for some of their medical treatment.

Lerman tells people now that they should not give up on hope, especially if they have a family member with the coronavirus.

Jennifer Miele, Bettina’s daughter, called her mother “a true prayer warrior.”

“Her doctors are saying she is a medical miracle and have never seen anyone go through what she has and woken up. This truly is a medical and faith miracle,” Miele wrote.

As of Friday afternoon, they have raised $4,300 toward their goal of $25,000.

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