A sixty-year-old from the Lanaudière region has defied doctors’ predictions more than once. After contracting hepatitis C, waking up from several artificial comas, having a pulmonary embolism and being struck down by influenza, Manon Hébert came close to death a fifth time two and a half months ago.
“I am a miracle, there is really no other word,” said Manon Hébert.
“There are so many things around my mother that cannot be explained by medicine,” said her daughter Sonia Element, who has worked in the health field for 27 years, notably as an auxiliary nurse.
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The most recent event occurred on March 29, at their residence in Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, near Joliette.
Mme Hébert, 63, collapsed when she had too much air in her lungs due to her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
“My mother had died, on the floor, in my kitchen,” said Sonia, who resuscitated her mother for twelve minutes with her partner, before the paramedics arrived.
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Doctors reportedly told the family that she could die within the next hour.
“She had a pulse of 14 [battements] per minute and one hour later, his results were normal. The doctor told us that what he witnessed cannot be explained by medicine,” mentioned Sonia.
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A fifth “miracle”
What is most impressive about this story is that this episode was the fifth “miracle”.
Over the years, the sixty-year-old contracted influenza, had a pulmonary embolism and suffered septic shock.
According to her family’s testimony, in all three cases, she had to be intubated, and therefore placed in an artificial coma for three weeks, since, each time, her condition had deteriorated.
“I was told that my mother had a 50% chance of dying. I told them that we were leaning towards 50% of living,” remembered Sonia.
And that’s exactly what happened :Mme Hébert escaped unscathed, while “the doctors told us that they had never seen this in their career,” she added.
A rare case, according to health professionals to whom the QMI Agency spoke.
A difficult past
M’s first fightme Hébert was diagnosed with hepatitis C, a diagnosis she received at age 38 due to drug addiction.
“For his type of hepatitis C, there was a [personne] out of 475,000 people who could benefit from a complete remission. She was that person,” Sonia recalled.
Her mother would not have had an easy past and “is fueled today by the love of her family,” she whispered, moved.
“It makes me emotional, because I don’t feel like leaving my children and my grandchildren. I was abandoned before them. The fact of being miraculous means that I have the right to happiness,” maintained the miraculous.
Mme Hébert now lives with his daughter Sonia, who takes care of her every day.
“Everything I haven’t experienced 100%, today I want to experience it,” she said.
