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Nahum 2:12
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
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Posted by: JG on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 04:59 AM
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Medical Miracle Sarah Scantlin was in a coma for 20 years wakes up calls home. pray
Hutchinson woman who suffered a critical head injury and has been verbally unresponsive since she was hit by a car 20 years ago has begun to form words and is regaining her memory.
Sarah Scantlin, 18 at the time of the Sept 22, 1984, pedestrian hit-and-run accident, has been bedfast at Golden Plains Health Care Center since mid-1985.
[B]"It's like a miracle has happened,"[/B] Golden Plains Administrator Sharon Kuepker said of Scantlin's recent progress.
While she had been cognizant of what was going on around her, until about a month ago, the only sound Scantlin had made was crying out in a loud voice - something she started in the last few years, said Jennifer Trammell, Golden Plains Social Services staff member.
In her two decades at Golden Plains, the staff always has talked to Sarah when they were in her room - as a part of her plan of care, Kuepker said.
Scantlin had been placed in small group settings before, but a month ago Pat Rincon, Golden Plains activity director, was working with her in a small group she responded with an 'OK, OK.'
"It just happened one day, and nobody really knows why," Kuepker said. "She had been in that group before, and it was just like [B]all of a sudden something happened. It just came out real plain."
From that point on, Rincon started working harder on communication, Kuepker said.
"It was like a red flag that Sarah understood and repeated it," she said.
Since that time, Scantlin, the daughter of Betsy and Jim Scantlin, has progressed to the point she is forming additional words, is counting and is remembering people and places.
For close to 20-years Sarah could only communicate with gestures, there was no talking. [B]Then Friday a miracle.[/B]
Jim Scantlin said: "[B]I got on the phone and Sarah said, 'Hi dad.[/B]' She's 100 percent Sarah. She's using all her capacities to the maximum and that's a real inspiration. Sarah's back and that's the best gift in the world."
The Scantlin's are inviting anyone who wants to celebrate Sarah's miracle to Hutch's Golden Plains Nursing Home Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.
The past two decades have been an emotional turmoil for them, Jim Scantlin said. "It's been a profound conflict between a deep sorrow and self-pity."
On open house at the nursing home for friends and family to visit and celebrate the change in her condition is set for Saturday.
On the night of the accident, her daughter was out celebrating with friends, Betsy Scantlin said. A Nickerson High School graduate in the Class of 1984, she was commuting to Hutchinson Community College, where she had enrolled as a freshman.
"That week, she had a new job at Wiley's and had been named a member of the HCC drill team," Betsy Scantlin said. "They were celebrating all the good things that happened."
Scantlin and her friends had left the J. W. Tappens Club in the 2100 block of East 11th Avenue at about midnight and were walking to their cars when a passing car struck her.
The driver of the car left the scene without reporting the accident. He later was identified as Douglas D. Doman II, 24. He was convicted of driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an injury accident and served six months in jail. |
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