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The Christmas Eve Miracle, One Year
Later Part Two of Two By Dave Andrusko A year ago I wrote a story which we headlined, "Christmas Miracle" Defies Explanation." Twelve months later, the Associated Press ran a follow-up story under the headline, "One Year Later, Family Still Awed by Miracle Recovery of Mom, Baby."
Clearly the amazing medical miracle of Mike, Tracy, and Coltyn Hermanstorfer has lost none of its luster, possibly because (as Diane Sawyer said at the time), "Even in this day and age, medicine can't explain everything." Preparing to give birth on Christmas Eve, Tracy went into cardiac arrest at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. While doctors were able to quickly deliver Coltyn by emergency C-section, he appeared lifeless. On top of that, Mike soon thought he had lost them both when Tracy's heart stopped beating. "But doctors revived Coltyn in his father's arms," according to the AP. And then miracle of miracles, "a nurse told Hermanstorfer his wife's pulse had inexplicably returned and that she would probably survive," even though she'd been without a pulse for four minutes. Mom and baby are as healthy as doctors are lacking in a medical explanation. Coltyn's "developing and at the right level he's supposed to," Tracy told the Associated Press. "I've done a couple tests and I come out just perfectly healthy. We still haven't figured it out, how it happened and why it happened." "That's why I mark this up as a miracle," Mike, 38, told the AP. "There's no other explanation anywhere from anybody that can explain anything different to me." The family has endured a series of severe financial setbacks, but "the couple said they have found comfort in family, which they say has drawn closer since Coltyn's birth." Kanyen, their 4-year-old son, has become Coltyn's "big brother-protector." Please send your comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com. |
