One quiet Sunday morning, Ryan Finley tried to wake his wife, Jill—but something was wrong. She wasn’t moving. No response. Panicked, he called 911 and performed CPR until help arrived.
At the hospital, doctors confirmed the worst: Jill, just 31, had gone into sudden cardiac arrest. Her brain had been starved of oxygen and she soon slipped into a coma.
For two weeks, Jill lay unresponsive. Ryan never left her side—reading Bible passages aloud, praying for a miracle. But hope began to fade. Doctors saw no improvement and gently urged Ryan to consider removing life support.
Crushed, Ryan made the impossible decision. Machines were turned off. He stayed by her side, preparing to say goodbye.
But five hours later, a nurse rushed in.
“She’s talking.”
Jill’s first words? “Get me out of here. I want to go home.”
Ryan was stunned. She was alert, answering questions, even asking to go to her favorite Mexican restaurant. It wasn’t just a flicker of awareness—it was Jill, back.
Doctors called it unexplainable. Ryan called it divine intervention.
Jill’s recovery was slow but steady. She had to relearn daily tasks, but her spirit was unshaken. Amazingly, she even supported Ryan’s decision to remove life support. “I wouldn’t want to live like that,” she said.
Now, they live every day with deeper love and gratitude.
“Every night,” Ryan says, “I reach over and gently kick her. If she kicks back, I know we’re okay.”
A miracle? Maybe. But what’s certain is that Ryan never gave up on the woman he loved—and somehow, she found her way back.