Life story 3

Life story 3

‘My family was told that I would not make it as I had been deprived of oxygen for too long’

I slept throughout the eleven-hour flight from Thailand to Israel on the 13 Dec 2003. I was with my church group on a tour to Israel. Midway through the flight I felt pain on my right calf but dismissed it in my drowsy state. But just as I alighted from the plane at Tel Aviv airport, I collapsed and lost consciousness.

I was foaming at the mouth and my eyes had rolled up. By the time the ambulance arrived my heart had stopped beating, and my body was stiff and blue. Even then it was another ten long minutes to the hospital.

The doctors started CPR on me and hooked me up to a respiratory life support system. But they were telling my family that I would not survive.

Chest scans revealed that I had massive blood clots in my right heart ventricle and lungs. I was started on medications to dissolve the clots. But because of my critical state, my family was repeatedly told that I would not make it. I had been deprived of oxygen for too long.

My pastor of New Creation Church came on the 17 Dec. They claimed my healing in Jesus’ Name, and celebrated the Holy Communion by my bed. The next day I suddenly woke up! I had been unconscious for six days.

A repeat scan showed that there were no more clots in my chest. I was discharged from hospital on Christmas Day, the day of Jesus’ birth.

Two days later, I rejoined the tour group to visit the Garden Tomb where our Lord rose from the dead. God, who raised Him from the dead on the third day, had saved me from certain death. Hallelujah! All glory be to Him! I returned to Israel again for another tour in Dec 2004. This time it was not so dramatic.

Ms Mak Suwen, 30, works as an Office Adminstrator.