Wilkes County pastor whose family was told had died, is still alive and remains in the hospital as of Thursday
The pastor's wife says she told her son "God can do miracles and doctors may have been wrong about your daddy being in Heaven with Jesus, so let’s just pray and let God do a miracle."
The pastor's wife says she told her son "God can do miracles and doctors may have been wrong about your daddy being in Heaven with Jesus, so let’s just pray and let God do a miracle."
The pastor's wife says she told her son "God can do miracles and doctors may have been wrong about your daddy being in Heaven with Jesus, so let’s just pray and let God do a miracle."
Megan Marlow is back at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center still monitoring her husband in the neuro intensive care unit.
We've been following the Marlow family's story since Monday, when Megan was mourning the loss of the man she loved. They had been given the bad news on Saturday.
"He was clinically deceased. He had passed away," Megan Marlow recalls a nurse telling her. "She said 'your husband has passed.' Those were the words that were used.”
On Monday afternoon Megan received a call saying Ryan had actually fallen short of neurological death.
"They had put down clinical death on Saturday and they had to remove it. They had to take it off," Megan told WXII. "She said now the time of death would be Tuesday afternoon when he was in the OR and excavated.”
But before Ryan went to the OR and the organ donation process could begin, the family noticed movement in Ryan’s feet and alerted the doctors. Megan said doctors observed her husband and now tell her Ryan is not brain dead but in a deep coma.
Ryan and Megan have three children, all under the age of six.
After telling him his daddy was in Heaven, Megan had to explain this situation to her 5-year-old son.
"I told him this morning God can do miracles and doctors may have been wrong about your daddy being in Heaven with Jesus so let’s just pray and let God do a miracle," Megan told WXII on Thursday. "I had to be very careful how I worded it, but at the same time he was so devastated and hurt but if there’s a chance he can witness a miracle here at just five years old, that stuff will be with him for the rest of his life.”
Megan wanted Ryan to be transferred to Duke Hospital’s neuro ICU.
She said she’s fighting for every chance her husband may have, no matter the cost.
In a Facebook Live late Thursday, she said he will not be moving to Duke Hospital. She said doctors there did a virtual examination Thursday night and told her they wouldn’t be able to do anything above what Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is doing. However, she said she’s not giving up hope. She said she’s now looking at a possible transfer to other hospitals and asked the current doctors to treat Ryan as if he’ll make a full recovery. She said, “This is beyond medical help, this is in the Lord’s hands.”