On a Knife's Edge | Documentary
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In this documentary we explore the harrowing events that unfolded during the Covid-19 outbreak.
We had heard the rumours about how hospitals were using dangerous protocols. My husband was hoping it was just a conspiracy theory and didn’t believe it. We had no idea that our worst nightmare was about to come to pass.
With multiple organ failure and an unfathomable list of complications, our only hope was a miracle.
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thank you the World Health Organization has declared coronavirus a global pandemic there's confirmation the coronavirus has reached Australia Victoria will be in lockdown coronavirus coronavirus coronavirus
coronavirus coronavirus coronavirus coronavirus we have to live with this virus.
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at the end of 2021 my life began to spiral downhill at a rapid rate. My husband and I had been sick for two weeks but at around 1am on December 17 2021 my husband became dehydrated and Delirious after not drinking for three days .So I made the Fateful decision to call the ambulance.
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2:28am the paramedics arrived and recorded that there was quote "no immediate life threat" end quote.
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Ambulance records indicate that at 2 40 AM they gave my husband oxygen therapy while at the scene however I was there with him and he was not given any Oxygen therapy the entire time while he was at
home.
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The paramedics did however put a disposable protective face mask on him and asked me to do the same. He did not have any problems with his breathing at this stage.
Due to the government's harsh covid-19 restrictions at the time the paramedics wouldn't allow me to go with my husband nor would they let me go into the hospital to be with him.
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I was extremely concerned at this stage because I'd heard many horrible stories about unvaccinated people being wrongly treated due to bad Hospital protocols and having horrific often fatal outcomes.
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The very first thing the hospital did without getting his consent was test him for covid using a PCR test which returned a positive result. However PCR tests had already been known to be unreliable.
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ABC News published an article on the 4th of June 2021 after two of Melbourne's covid-19 cases had been found to be false positives.
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Dean Whiting a trained clinical biochemist and CEO of pathology technology Australia said quote 'False
positives and false negatives are inevitable they do happen and they will continue to happen' end quote.
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The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is Australia's government Authority who monitor, regulate and make determinations on therapeutic Goods such as drugs and medical devices. The TGA have admitted that the PCR test cannot distinguish between a live virus and a dead virus. However once they had confirmation of a positive PCR test they placed him in an isolated area put him on oxygen a high flow nasal cannula and would not allow any visitors. Even vaccinated ones.
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Hospital staff also warned him on his first day of being admitted that he may have to be intubated to which he said he did not want that and they replied 'so you are requesting do not revive?'
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He was shocked by their response and informed them that he wanted to try other options first which they said they would do. I spoke to him later that day and he was back to his normal self again after being rehydrated besides suffering from common cold flu symptoms.
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He wasn't having any difficulty breathing. However, the hospital kept him bedridden and at 8:58 am they decided to remove the high flow nasal cannula and place him on a more intensive oxygen therapy called a bipep machine.
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Bipep stands for bi-level positive airway pressure which pushes air into the recipient's strongest when the
person breathes in this oxygen therapy is classed as a non-invasive ventilator.
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The national covid-19 clinical evidence task force provides a conditional recommendation for use of Remdesivir in adults. In August 2021 their guidelines stated quote 'do not start REM deservey in adults hospitalized with covid-19 who require ventilation' end quote. Down further it clarifies that this includes both invasive and non-invasive ventilation.
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My husband had been on a non-invasive ventilator for over three hours then at 12 15 PM the doctors went against the national covid-19 clinical evidence task force recommendation and administered the first dose of Remdesivir to him.
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They did not inform him of any potential risks associated with this drug and they did not inform me they were beginning this treatment. I only found out he was being given Remdesivir five days later when I asked
what medications were being administered to him.
At 12:26 PM the hospital switched from the BiPAP machine to a CPAP which is also classed as a non-invasive ventilator.
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CPAP stands for continuous positive airway pressure however this one forces constant bursts of air into his lungs at an uncomfortably high and fast rate. He was not informed of any potential risks from using this device, neither was he asked if he would like to begin this treatment.
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at the time the CPAP machine was a fairly new treatment being used for covid patients. However new studies are finding that these machines are not only ineffective but they can be dangerous. Due to covid-19 being a new virus, the effectiveness of a CPAP machine on a patient who is suffering with the illness wasn't fully known.
However what was established is that CPAP machines have been known to cause asthma, coughing, hiccups difficulty breathing, reactive airway disease pneumonitis and pneumonia.
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CPAP Victoria's website admits that quote 'the warm and humid environ of the heated tubing is perfect for fungal mold and yeast growth hazardous organisms in the CPAP machine tubing could be blown directly to the user's lungs this could lead to Airway and lung irritation which may subsequently develop to pneumonitis, bronchitis and pneumonia. Study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal examined the incidence of pneumonia in more than 34 000 patients who were divided into two groups the CPAP users and the control group researchers found that CPAP users were 32 percent more likely to develop pneumonia compared to the control group in general.
A weakened immune defense can make a patient more vulnerable to different types of lung infections.
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It's important to note that this study was only observed on patients using the CPAP machine overnight not on a continual 24/7 basis like my husband received.
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The Lancet is the world-leading source of clinical public health and Global Health knowledge ranking first among all General and Internal Medicine journals globally.
Regarding the use of CPAP machines as treatment for covid 19, They publish the following quote 'in summary this study shows no evidence of a survival advantage from CPAP treatment as a ceiling of care in severe covid-19 pneumonitis when compared to Conventional oxygen therapy. CPAP Administration in the ward setting has high mortality and may bring a significant treatment burden to patients' end quote
Another study that was done on covid-19 patients undergoing CPAP therapy showed grim results, quote; 'A retrospective study reported value rates of 66 percent in patients with covid-19 receiving CPAP and high
mortality 55 in those requiring invasive mechanical ventilation after CPAP failure' end quote.
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The doctors x-rayed my husband's chest told him it looks bad and put him on antibiotics. In his first round of covid antivirals which included baracita nib and a 10-day course of Remdesivir.
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Towards the end of 2020 the New York Times published an article that stated quote; 'Remdesivir, the only antiviral drug authorized for treatment of covid-19 in the United States fails to prevent deaths among patients according to a study of more than 11,000 people in 30 countries sponsored by the World Health Organization,' end quote.
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Not only was this drug shown to be ineffective it also has been proven to be dangerous and is known for causing kidney failure. This was published on the National Institutes of Health Website
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An earlier study had been done in 2019 on Remdesivir to see how effective it was at treating Ebola the results showed quote: "the mortality rate in the Remdesivir treatment group 53" end quote.
A registered nurse for over a decade and founder of American Frontline nurses Nicole Ceratec worked at a hospital in New York. At the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak she did not see any patients die from covid-19 however many patients were dying.
"I didn't see a single patient die of Covid. I've seen a substantial number of patients die of negligence and medical malfeasance."
Now while I was there and I saw that the pharmaceutical companies were rolling out Remdesivir onto the patients. I tried to get a hold of the irbs I try to get a hold of my appropriate chain of commands. see I tried CMS, I tried Department of Health and they rolled out Remdesivir onto a substantial number of patients for which we all saw it was killing the patients.
And now it's the FDA approved drug that is continuing to kill patients in the United States. As nurses we've collected a statistical or descriptive amount of information that you may not get from the doctors because for more they do quantitative data we do qualitative data with a humanistic phenomological approach in nursing research.
And so we've collected the data from all of these patients across the country all of this data pool shows that as these patients get Remdesivir they have a less than 25 percent chance of survival if they get more than two doses.
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my husband was moved from the emergency department to the ICU and was told by a doctor that covid has caused him to have acute kidney failure not attributing it to the fact that he was severely dehydrated. They also told him that due to covid he now has a permanent heart condition.
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by the end of his first day in hospital he was already on a strong concoction of medications with most of their side effects warning of the potential to cause serious health problems especially difficulty breathing
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Thankfully the next day I received a call from a doctor who told me that his kidney issue had been all sorted and is now back to normal and that he never had a heart condition.
I had heard that Ivermectin was an alternative treatment that has been found to be effective in treating patients with covid so I asked the doctor if they could give him Ivermectin? The doctor laughed then proceeded to tell me that it's not proven to help and isn't part of their quote: 'protocols' end quote.
The doctor wrote in my husband's medical report quote, 'raised question of ivermectin advised it is not part of our guidelines/ protocols and he is receiving other covid therapies. Paracetinip, Remdesivir, dexamethasone' end quote.
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interestingly two clinical trials noted in the references section of the Australian guidelines for the clinical
care of people with covid-19 show evidence that Ivermectin is effective in reducing the duration of the sarskov-2 virus.
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In the guidelines it says quote: 'a five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of covid-19 May reduce the duration of illness' end quote.
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this was published in the international Journal of infectious diseases on the 2nd of December 2020. The other statement says quote favorable outcome on viral load and culture viability using Ivermectin end quote this was first published in Med archive on the 31st of May 2021. The guidelines also include a pilot trial that was studied in 2021 with results showing that Ivermectin caused a 5,000 fold reduction in viral RNA, that all patients got over the virus faster with the use of ivermectin and that this drug did not cause any serious Adverse Events.
The article has since been retracted.
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These articles were published well before my husband became sick with the virus.
For the next five days my husband was kept on the CPAP machine day and night with only minimal time offered to eat, drink and change over to the high flow nasal cannula for short periods.
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throughout this time frame on December 21st the doctor informed me that my husband has bacterial pneumonia to which he said they're giving him a seven day course of antibiotics for there was no mention of pneumonia until this date. The report from the Radiology registrar revealed a different story from what I'd been told by the doctor. The report stated quote" 'appearances would most commonly be secondary to alveolar rupture due to ventilation with dissection into the mediastinal space'
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end quote. Alveoli are organized into clusters and each cluster is grouped in alveolar sacs alveoli a tiny air sacs in the lungs that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide during the process of breathing in and breathing out damage to the alveoli in Airways makes it harder to exchange carbon dioxide and
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oxygen during each breath this report concludes that the ventilator has caused damage to my
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husband's lungs the radiologist also noted that my husband had new subcutaneous emphysema and pneumo mediastinum.
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He was additionally diagnosed with barotrauma and pneumonitis. None of these details were divulged to my husband or me. I asked the doctor about whether they could give him vitamin d and vitamin C natural supplements that have been proven to help recover from covid.
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however he said there's no evidence that it's useful for covid he wrote in the medical report quote; 'nil
evidence for use in covid risk of harm to patient by providing inefficacious management as all therapies have
associated risks with use,' end quote.
I spoke to the dietitian and asked her if they could put my husband on vitamin C and vitamin D but the dietitian said they can only give those supplements if
the patient is low on them she wrote in the medical report quote 'advised we do not routinely prescribe this. We could check levels and replace if it is low but not without a clinical need to,' end quote.
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while she never asked why I wanted him on these vitamins she noted on the record that quote wife appears to be requesting for covid purposes end quote my request was brushed off and never spoken of again even though the doctors denied that these vitamins would be effective studies done back in 2020 show that the use of vitamin C and vitamin D can help reduce the severity of covid 19.
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on December 22nd I asked if they were treating him for asthma something he's had to have daily medication for his whole life. However the doctor said they are not. They also did an ultrasound on his lungs for any potential blood clots and it came back all clear and showed his heart function was perfectly normal.
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My husband was starting to feel out of breath for the first time on this day something he hadn't felt until now after being on the CPAP machine for five days and nights another important note is that my husband got out of bed on this day and sat in a chair the first time.
Since being admitted to hospital he had been lying flat on his back in bed for five days straight, creating the potential for yet another prospective disaster resulting in pneumonia.
webmd.com states: 'lying flat on your back for a long time can increase your risk of developing pneumonia.'
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by the 23rd of December 2021 my husband was at the point where he believed what the doctors and nurses had been telling him throughout the past week that he couldn't survive without the assistance of the oxygen. What was confusing to him though was that he felt he could breathe better without the oxygen mask than with it.
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The doctor said to him that this is the only way he's going to get better. They also told him he had now developed pneumonia something he hadn't been told until this day.
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he wasn't given any more information than that so he had no idea what sort of pneumonia it was or how he had developed.
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it the medical report sheds more light as to what type of pneumonia he had developed the report States three letters VAP which is the abbreviation for ventilator Associated pneumonia.
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ventilator-associated pneumonia is a lung infection that develops in someone who's on a ventilator. My suspicions were confirmed that the continual use of non-invasive ventilation with the CPAP caused him to acquire pneumonia. Both the radiologist and the doctor separately confirmed that their ventilation policy has been the cause of my husband developing this pneumonia.
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Another problem that was written on his record this day was superimposed hap which is hospital-acquired pneumonia this information was never given to me or my husband so we were completely unaware of this at the time.
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hearing he had pneumonia was frightening and overwhelming for him. He started to become more weary of the treatment he was being given and told me he wanted to go home tomorrow morning so we started making arrangements.
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we planned that I would call the hospital first thing the next morning informed them that he would like to
discharge himself and that I would go and pick him up.
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on December 24 2021 exactly one week after being administered to hospital I packed his bags and was ready to go and get him but at 9:30 am the doctor called to tell me that they need to intubate him now within the next 10 minutes stating that it's dangerous not to.
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He said it's safer to intubate him now while it's not an emergency and while they have the anesthesiologist there ready to go rather than wait and have to do it later when they don't have the anesthesiologists on hand.
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I felt shock and dread come over me because this was the very thing I was fearful of happening.
I asked if I could come in and see him before they put him in an induced coma or at least speak with him on the phone before they do the procedure but the doctor flatly denied both my requests repeating that quote: "it's too dangerous to wait" end quote, and that they have to do it now.
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I was taken back by his current response as well as the fact that he didn't even address my question so I explained that I knew he wasn't asking for my permission but that I wanted to know if my husband had agreed to be intubated to which the doctor replied yes he has.
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He ended the conversation by telling me they will let me know once it's been done
The doctor wrote in the medical report quote explained that this is not a routine courtesy call rather it is regarding imminent intubation at this time this is able to be done by the airway experts and aesthetic consultant in a controlled Manner and this is our plan
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Although this is not without risk it is being done by the experts inquiry made read potential visit into ICU response.
This will depend upon covid status end quote I desperately tried to contact my husband on his phone but it had run out of battery so there was no way we were able to communicate with each other before he was put into an induced coma.
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an article published in the National Library of Medicine on September 2020 admits that quote:
'There is no direct evidence attesting to the benefit of intubation and imv in critically ill covid-19 patients. On the contrary a report revealed that of 32 covid-19 patients who received intubation and imv support 31 died.' endquote.
A short time later I received a call from the doctor informing me that my husband had been successfully put on the ventilator and is now fully sedated he went on to explain how bad my husband was before he was intubated.
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hopefully we're going to get this down to stably around 50 40 percent around that stage if they're doing quite well then we slowly wean down the sedation the sleeping medication and let them wake up usually a couple days.
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My precious husband who I'd been married to for the past 25 years had been given treatments where he ended up having severe lung problems and was put into an induced coma the day before Christmas.
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The rest of this day Christmas Eve and also Christmas Day felt like a blur. I waited with trepidation in the hope that he would be woken up after only a few days and everything would be fine.
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A few days passed but there was no mention of waking him although the doctors were saying that he seemed to be doing well on the ventilator and the oxygen levels he was requiring were slowly getting better.
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Dr Brian Ardis; chiropractor, medical researcher and CEO of Ardis Labs, began researching hospital practices for patients with covid-19 when he saw his father-in-law die after being treated with the hospital protocols.
Still today they are calling it pneumonia from Corona. they're going to use Remdesivir. 31 of people treated with for covid-19 will have acute kidney failure their lungs will fill with fluid right now they're adding dexamethasone which has four percent reported kidney failure.
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For all those who get it so now you're up to 35 percent if anyone listening to this has a loved one in a hospital and they have added to that protocol a drug called Vancomycin which is an antibiotic upwards of 10 of
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all of those individuals will experience even worsened acute kidney failure it will stop their heart pressure on the heart make them go into a coma and make them unconscious and they will die and they will say it was because of covid-19
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this is not true on the 29th of December 2021 a few days after doctors finished the treatment of Remdesivir and dexamethasone.
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While my husband was still on Remdesivir he was started on Vancomycin due to now acquiring sepsis. He was also on two sedation medications; Fentanyl and midazolam. The medical report stated quote: 'at risk of sudden deterioration given clinical status' end quote.
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on the 30th of December 2021 my husband was administered midazolam and morphine. Both of these drugs have separately been associated with respiratory distress.
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Midazolam and morphine together synergistically boost the respiratory depression effects of these drugs and
the deadly toxic effects of the drugs. All of them make the respiration depression worse and you're dealing with supposedly a respiratory distress syndrome and you're going to add these sedation drugs as an excuse for ventilation on top of the toxic effects of Remdesivir.
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My husband started out being sedated with only two drugs but after a short time the doctors changed it to three sedatives; propofol, morphine and midazolam. Every so often morphine was swapped for fentanyl or oxycodone.
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He was also kept paralyzed a lot of the time as well with doctors swapping between scissor curium and rho coronium
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That same morning the doctor called and I spoke with him at 9:16 am: 'he's had a little bit of a while things have changed to the extent where for whatever reason is required more oxygen so that's a bit of a concern.
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'It's not as comforting as the pictures was painted by my colleague yesterday. Wheels are not falling off at the moment. Things are not drastically hitting downhill. it is a concern that things have actually changed in that sort of direction. Things are not quite the way we were hoping they were and have changed quite a bit.'
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'It's a matter of quite serious.' While I was still trying to process what I'd just been told at 9:52 am I received
another call from the doctor my heart sank because I knew that getting two phone calls from the ICU in the same hour was very serious. The doctor informed me that because my husband had become so ill that they needed to put him on what's called ECMO, a heart and lung machine.
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ECMO stands for extra Corporal membrane oxygenation and is classed as a last resort, extreme form of life support. The ECMO machine takes over the job of the lungs to give them a chance to rest and heal it pumps the blood out of the patient's body oxygenates it then pumps it back into the body.
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there are several ways ECMO can be set up the doctors decided to place a cannula in both of my husband's femoral veins foreign is the highest level of life support that can be provided so if this didn't work there were no other options to help my husband survive
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I was in complete shock. I felt like I'd hit rock bottom. I thought the ventilator was bad enough but things just got a whole lot worse.
An international study published in the Lancet on October 2021 shows that there seems to be a decreased survival rate for patients who received the following treatments before being started on ECMO non-invasive ventilation Remdesivir and dexamethasone.
I talked to code again at 7:18 pm to advise me that they found it very challenging to perform the procedure and that my husband's oxygen levels went low for a prolonged period therefore he may now have neurological damage.
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He pointed out that there's no way of knowing for sure until it comes time to wake him up.
Not only was I concerned that my husband may never wake up adding to the concerns was that he may have permanent brain damage.
Something I wasn't aware of was that the medical report noted that my husband now has MRSA which is methyl and resistance staphylococcus aureus this is a form of The superbug Germ known as Staph or golden Steph which is a bacteria that is commonly found in hospitals and is resistant to several antibiotics.
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my husband and I are Christians we believe that the Bible is God's written Revelation to man that all of mankind has sinned against God but all who repent of their sins and place their trust in Jesus will be saved.
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I knew that God could heal my husband because I know that he is all-powerful and he performs great miracles. My question wasn't could God heal my husband it was 'is it God's will for my husband to live?'
I knew that if it was in God's will for him to live then God would bring him through.
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On the 6th of January 2022 at 10:59 PM, 13 days after my husband was put into an induced coma, seven days after being put on ECMO, the doctors contacted me to let me know that they're not happy with the amount of oxygen my husband's receiving with the current setup of the ECMO machine.
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So they decided to do a procedure to reconfigure the ECMO and place a cannula into the jugular vein in his neck.
I wasn't informed of any problems that may have occurred while they were doing this procedure however the medical records indicate that my husband's oxygen levels went dangerously low during the process,
quote: 'spo2 transiently dipped to 26 percent' end quote.
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As the days passed fear kept creeping in with so much confusion worry and questions rushing through my mind; "How long will he be in a coma for? When will his lungs start working? Will he ever wake up?"
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Hours turned into days, days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. During this entire period of time not once was I allowed to enter the hospital to be with my husband. Even though the doctors continually
emphasize the seriousness of the situation, the hospital would not let me come in because I was unvaccinated
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Going through such a horrifying ordeal with my husband's life being on the brink of death was bad enough but to be deliberately stopped from physically being with him was a whole other level of overwhelming grief
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so much time passing days felt like years and nights were filled with loneliness - my life partner who I do everything with was no longer with me. He was unknowingly fighting for his life.
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I feared that this moment of separation may become permanent. Couldn't go into the hospital, I couldn't
sit with him and hold his hand but I could pray.
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I studied the scriptures and found instances where the Lord heard and answered the prayers of his people. I began to read these scriptures day and night praying for my husband and clinging on tightly to my God.
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I told him all my doubts and fears asking him to please intervene and save my husband from the grips of death.
For the next two months I spent every waking hour praying pleading and crying out to God asking him to please heal my husband.
On the 15th of January 2022 my husband's birthday, I received some very bad news. The doctor called at 6:39 pm and told me that my husband's condition has worsened and that they're very concerned about him.
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"it started to sort of really really struggle today is showing signs of being at risk that it could get worse and we could then struggle to support him. It's pretty concerning for us. We'll see what happens in the next few hours"
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He also said that I should be prepared to expect a call in the middle of the night if things got worse.
Rhe doctor wrote in the notes quote: 'seems to be deteriorating unfortunately' end quote. This was such hard news to hear and on his birthday of all days.
I went to bed that night hoping and praying that my phone wouldn't ring.
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The next day on January the 16th 2022 the doctor called at 6:38 pm
"He's hanging in there in there still hard going and we need everything to go right from here. We're still very very worried about him like things were going to get any worse, we'd get you to come in."
Due to my husband being in such a critical condition, I desperately pleaded with the hospital to give me permission to visit him.
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But the only reason they said they would allow me to go in to see my husband was if he was at the point where he was going to die, otherwise we would continue to be kept isolated from one another.
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on the 20th of January 2022 my husband was diagnosed with pulmonary edema. This means he had too much fluid in his lungs. While the doctors were doing a circuit change for the ECMO that is changing the ECMO tubing, my husband's oxygen saturation level went down to 37 percent. The report states, quote:
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"Nadia sets 37 percent with profound bradycardia plus ECG changes" end quote.
A normal oxygen saturation is between 95 to 100 anything under 80 percent can begin to affect the brain and is considered critical yet my husband's oxygen saturation dropped to 37 on this day and 26 two weeks earlier.
I had moments where I felt like I was drowning especially when a doctor called and
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delivered bad news. I received these types of calls almost every time a doctor made contact and this kept happening for weeks on end doctors said things like he's more unstable, he's on a knife's edge point, he's very borderline. I had to keep bringing my mind back to God and remind myself that he is ultimately in control of my husband's life.
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I found that when I did this I felt God's peace which I know was a peace that passes all understanding although whether my husband would survive this or not wasn't certain I was Learning to Lean on my God no matter what happens
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on the 23rd of January 2022 I spoke to a doctor at 3 15 pm. He said that my husband is still very unwell that his lungs still aren't working properly and he's requiring a lot of support from the ECMO machine. He said my husband may need to be on it still for weeks or even months
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this was very disheartening to hear as it had already been almost a month since he'd been put on ECMO over the next several weeks my husband had numerous complications such as many hospital-acquired pneumonias numerous infections often sepsis vasoplegia and fluid overload. This last issue was the most problematic
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because they had to give him fluid and at the same time try to offload it with the dialysis machine.
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however every time they started removing the fluid this would interfere with the ECMO machine and cause it not to work sufficiently if the doctors were unable to run the ECMO machine effectively then
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there was nothing else they could do for him when my husband had too much fluid in his body it was filling his lungs which could cause them more damage
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fluid overload can then put pressure on the heart and cause heart failure.
As I found out another complication from the doctors each day or two I continued to pray
little did I know at the time just how many issues my husband was suffering from with many of them being
life-threatening just dealing with one of those serious issues can be fatal yet my husband was enduring many at the same time
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on the 30th of January 2022 the doctor called at 10 20 am to say that my husband aspirated the tube feeding formula so he has some kind of bowel obstruction which may need life-saving surgery to fix it my family and I prayed and asked God to please clear whatever's obstructing my husband's bow so he can receive the fluid through the feeding tube again.
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the doctors did a CT scan to see if they can find out what was obstructing the bowel but there was no obvious sign of an issue.
The next day on the 31st of January 2022
the doctor started feeding my husband through the feeding tube again and this time he was able to absorb it
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the doctors had no idea what had caused the obstruction but the problem suddenly disappeared. Each day the past started to bring with it a glimmer of hope because my husband was still alive through the darkness of fear and pain I began to see a ray of light knowing that after everything that was happening to my husband God was indeed holding him and keeping him alive.
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It's amazing how when you have no control at all over what's happening in your life you realize just how little control you really have how long we will live or when we will die.
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With my husband constantly being so close to death day in and day out I felt like my life was falling apart but it was in those moments that I knew God was there with me.
I could get mad at God or blame him for being in this horrifying situation but I knew that I had no right to blame him every breath I'm able to take is only available with thanks to the grace of God.
The Bible is filled with Believers
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suffering immense troubles but through their tribulations we see how they responded to their situation whether they had faith in God no matter what happened.
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Sleep often evaded me and I had the ongoing concern that my phone would ring in the middle of the night with bad news.
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Although I failed to remain steadfast in faith every single moment God was so gracious and he still inclined his ear.
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on the 1st of February 2022 the doctors backed off The Saturdays a little to see how my husband would react during my video call with him. I could see him moving his head slightly and blinking every now and then.
Just to see him move even a little was a wonderful moment for me after seeing him on video calls lying in the hospital bed completely still for the last six weeks it was another glimmer of hope to see him move even a
little on the 3rd of February 2022 41 days in a
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coma 35 days on ECMO the doctor called at 6 56 pm to tell me some news I'd been
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hoping and praying for since the start of this ordeal he said my husband's oxygenation has
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slightly improved and his lungs are finally starting to recover this was the best news to hear
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after praying to God and asking him to heal my husband's lungs for almost two months with absolutely no change. During that time to finally hear this news was huge.
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I knew that God had heard my heartfelt prayers. I'd been broken-hearted and in the depths of despair yet God never left me. Every few days my husband's lungs continued to improve air on an X-ray looks dark so when lungs are healthy they will look dark on the image.
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by the 12th of February 2022 they were well enough to work on their own.
Over the next week the doctors slowly reduce the amount of sedatives they were giving my husband to let him finally wake up.
On the 13th of February 2022 after being
on ECMO for 45 days the doctors were able to turn off the ECMO machine my husband's lungs were working on their own again.
On the 16th of February 2022 my husband was looking extremely distressed on the video call because of the breathing tubes he had down his throat: less sedatives meant he was able to feel the tubes and it was extremely uncomfortable.
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Although he wasn't fully aware of what was going on they had reduced the sedatives enough so they could see how well he could comprehend instructions. Thankfully God preserved my husband's brain even when his oxygen level got to its lowest of only 26 percent.
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he was able to appropriately respond to the doctors and was cleared of any neurological problems.
when he looked at me on the video call I could see in his eyes that he knew who I was, I felt tremendous relief to see that my husband was not only almost fully awake physically but that his mind was fully
intact just like the day I met him. This was another miraculous answer to prayer.
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On the 17th of February 2022 because my husband was enduring such distress with the breathing tube down his throat the doctors gave him a tracheostomy which means he had a breathing tube put into his neck so they could remove the one from his mouth and throat
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on the 18th of February 2022 after being sedated for 56 days
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my husband was completely woken up
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during my video call with him he smiled
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for the first time since this whole nightmare began it was such a moving moment my daughter and I burst into tears. It was nice to finally cry happy tears. However our trials weren't over yet good
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the doctor said my husband's kidneys aren't working and he may have to stay on dialysis for
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the rest of his life
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on the 28th of February 2022 the doctors removed the tracheostomy tube from my husband's neck after being on a ventilator for 66 days. My husband was officially breathing on his own on the 2nd of March 2022 after spending
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75 days in the ICU the Intensive Care Unit my husband was finally moved into a ward
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this was such exciting news because it meant he no longer had any life-threatening issues
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on the 4th of March 2022
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the renal team informed my husband because it's been over five weeks since they've been waiting for his kidneys to
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kick in they're not expecting them to start working they said his options were to either
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stay on dialysis indefinitely Or have a kidney transplant
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we spoke on the phone and I told him about how we saw God perform a miracle by healing his lungs so we continue to
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pray and ask God to please now heal his kidneys. 20 minutes later my husband's kidney suddenly began working.
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after being given many different drugs for two months straight with each one having the potential to damage the
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kidneys including REM deserveer as well as being completely reliant on dialysis
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for 42 days his kidneys miraculously started up again
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each day they continue to improve until they went back to functioning perfectly normal again
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my husband had to learn to move talk eat and walk again he had lost all muscle
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mass and was severely deconditioned so the simple movement of lifting a hand or an arm was something he couldn't do
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he was confined to her bed for many more months and had to build up strength over time in order to move his body
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over these last few months I'd spent countless hours searching for a possible way that I could be allowed to go into
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the hospital to be with my husband contacting their board speaking with nurse managers as well as the family
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liaison team I let them know I was willing to take a rat test before entering and follow all
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their guidelines and ask that they'd allow me entry on compassionate grounds considering the seriousness of my husband's situation. I even went to a GP and had a serology test done.
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Showed that I have the covid antibodies however it didn't matter what I presented to them their answer was always the same: no vaccination, no entry.
I researched the government's Hospital visitation guidelines and found that according to the Victorian Minister for Health's guidance for the pandemic order 2022 unvaccinated people are allowed to
visit their loved one in hospital under two conditions that they Undertake and present a
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negative rapid antigen test on the day and wear an n95 face mask
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so as a last-ditch attempt I wrote
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another letter to the hospital detailing the government's guidelines
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to my surprise I received a call from the nurse manager in the ward informing me that they're going to grant me
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permission to visit my husband foreign
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on the 5th of March 2022 I was finally reunited with my husband after being
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apart for 77 days [Applause]
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on the 17th of March 2022 my husband was transferred to a rehab facility he began
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sessions the following day to build up his muscles enough so he can walk again
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just when we thought all our problems were behind us on the 3rd of April 2022
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my husband began having immense pain in the right side of his stomach
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the doctors did an ultrasound and found that he had cholecystitis which is an inflamed gallbladder
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he had to be rushed back to the hospital where they performed a cholecystostomy procedure which is inserting a tube into his
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gallbladder in order to drain out the fluid buildup on the 20th of April 2022
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my husband was transferred back to rehab where he was able to continue working at building up his muscles
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doing very good too nearly finished
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enjoying that shepherd's pie
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on the 28th of April 2022 after spending 131 days in hospital my husband was
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discharged and able to come home that afternoon he was finally able to
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hug his precious children and grandchildren who he hadn't seen for his entire duration in hospital
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my husband's medical report contains over 11,000 pages
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his vaccination status was strewn throughout the entire document the fact he was unvaccinated was
mentioned at least 180 times while we're thankful to the many doctors and nurses who helped my husband. the hospital's protocols regarding how to treat an unvaccinated patient are proven to be extremely dangerous.
Against All Odds my husband survived because God saved him.
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well it's been a long year to get to this part I've gone through so much from December 17th 2021 until now.
It's been a tough Journey.
I've had to overcome a lot I had to learn to walk again and feed myself and talk my voice still
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isn't back to where it used to be because of the tubes that were down my throat and as well as the other things
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the other procedures are done like a tracheostomy and things like that but I'm so blessed to be alive that I made it because so many people that went through what I went through didn't and I
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find that a heartache two people I know died while I was in a coma and they went
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through the same protocols that I went through which so many others went through and passed away
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I think it's a very sad thing that's there's been so much loss of life when it didn't need to happen there was definitely rumors before I went to hospital that there were different protocols for those who are unvaccinated and those who were vaccinated and I can't say whether that's true or not in my case but what I can tell you is that protocols that they followed were detrimental to my health including a cocktail of drugs and other
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medical equipment which was quite experimental for this type of issue that I had quite honestly if I had
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left the hospital the next day after I had been rehydrated I don't think I would have gone through the Journey that
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I went through but they put so much fear into you to stay and the more you stay on these machines the worse your lungs
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get and it led me to a very bad place as you saw in this video I had 86
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problems which I had to overcome all kinds of problems and I'm really
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blessed that I'm not brain damaged or have any huge issues I do have a little bit of memory loss I can't really walk
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that far yet I can walk um sort of to the front of the house and back and things like that but I get very
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exhausted very quickly even having a shower is exhausting so you know I'm praying for full
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recovery um it's been a miracle that I've come this far that my kidneys healed when I
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was told that they wouldn't heal that I would need a transplant when I prayed my kidneys came back
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um 20 minutes after and this is after I had the terrible news that my kidneys would never heal
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and uh just through prayer 20 minutes it's all it took for my kidneys to start working again
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and I know that I've been very fortunate it's obviously not my time to go and I'm
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here for a reason I really wouldn't have got through this if it weren't for my faith I've been a Christian since I was 18
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years old and you know I don't know how people go
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through these things without God because I found it hard enough going through this with God and I know that he was
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comforting me and sustaining me all the way through but I really want to encourage you
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um you know to seek the Lord because the days that we're in right now are pretty
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tough and I don't think it's going to get any easier the world's a bit of a crazy place and uh you know and the agendas that are
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going on in government and on a worldwide scale uh you know it's it's very concerning with my own testimony
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when I was 18 um you know I'd already grown up in a Catholic church and um but I didn't
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really know God very well God was somewhere in the distance for me um I was here and God was up in heaven
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and and that was pretty much it he just lived your life the way that you want to and you never really think much of God
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but when I found out what Jesus had really done that he died on the cross for me and that I would get forgiveness
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of sins because I found out that a holy God that he standards are so high you see I I been brought up to believe it as
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long as you're not a murderer or you know something like that then you you know or rapist you'll go to to heaven
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but then I found out that God's law is so holy you know that he's so holy his law which reflects his Holiness is so
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high that even if you think of us for thought you you won't inherit the kingdom of God you'll end up in hell and
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and so then I realized that you know I had done so much more than thought of Allah thought I thought of all kinds of
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things being angry at people and hurt other people sinned against God a holy
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God and you know I repented because I realized that I needed the Lord I needed
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his forgiveness and I was filled with the Holy Spirit and since then I've never looked back once I was filled with
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the Holy Spirit I felt the presence of God every day the depression that I felt at the time had gone I had Suicidal
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Thoughts at the time that had gone and I'm not going to sit here and tell you that everything's cured overnight when
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you become a Christian it's actually a hard life it's not always easy you know because we still have the flesh we still have sin and Temptation and uh you know
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it's not it's not an easy calling but with the Holy Spirit there to guide you and and lead you and for the Lord to
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comfort you it it's possible and and by his power only not by anything that we
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do it's about really becoming more and more like Jesus every single day and it's only possible by his grace alone
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not from our own efforts but by his but I want to tell you this because I feel
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like it would be a remiss of me to for us to go through all this documentary for you to see the miracle that God's
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done in my life I mean one atheist doctor said to me that you know whilst I
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I don't I've never believed in God she has after seeing your recovery I do
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believe there must be a higher power and another doctor said to me that we call you the Miracle Man around here
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because they just never thought I would recover and I think it would be remiss
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of me not to give you this good news I just thank the Lord that for everything he's done that he sustained my wife my
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family through this heartache through this hard time and that he sustained me because without
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him I don't think I would have got through everything that was thrown at me it just seemed when you look at everything what I went through my body
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went through it seems impossible that I would survive it and when you think about the 86 things that went wrong when
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you think about just one of those things let's just pick one um well kidney failure but or maybe
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let's look at um septicemia I had that several times you could have that once sepsis have you
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could have that once and die from having sepsis alone but that was just one of the 86 things and I had it many times so
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there were so many things that I survived which is is just not possible for me to have survived what I what I've
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got through so I just thank you for watching it thank you for giving me this time and watching
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till this point I know it's not easy to hear a message like this I never wanted to hear this kind of message when I was
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an unbeliever I thought yeah yeah yeah you know but you know eventually it
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really seeds that people have planted in my heart it took hold and it changed my life
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so I'm just so grateful to have the support that I've had and my family and friends
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and I also even though I do believe the protocols that they were in place and
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not just in Australia but around the world I do believe those protocols were terrible protocols I think there is
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massive agendas behind those protocols it was agendas to drive up numbers with covid to make it look worse than it was
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there was definitely agendas with the way that they use this equipment and the way that they gave these drugs but
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despite all that despite the protocols there are a lot of great nurses and doctors who who do want to help and who
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are trying to care for people even through a bad situation and I have many
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beautiful nurses that helped me that were so merciful and kind so I thank them too my wife's done a fantastic job
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at this documentary it took so much time she was sitting in the computer for 12 to 14 hours a day to get this done to
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get this message out for you to help you I mean I've gotten through this now but I guess our concern is for other people
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and especially for the future if they do this again we want to warn you that you
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need to be very careful they say regarding covid and the vaccine and
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things like this to weigh up the you know the risks versus benefits well I can tell you now if I ever think of even
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going to hospital again I'll be weighing up the risks versus benefit of just going to hospital
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I'm sorry to say that but that's just the way it is but if you have any questions contact us we love you thank
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you for watching take care and God bless bye-bye
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thank you