Reporter: PRITCHARD ADAMS SERVED AS
A MISSIONARY TO HAITI FOR 28
YEARS.
HE WAS VISITING CANADA THE
MORNING HE FELT A PAIN SO
SEVERE IN HIS HEAD, HE
COLLAPSED TO THE BATHROOM
FLOOR.
BY THE TIME PARAMEDICS
ARRIVED, HIS CONDITION HAD
GOTTEN WORSE.
HE GRABBED THE BACK OF
HIS NECK AND HIS EYES GLAZED
OVER AND HE WENT
UNCONSCIOUS.
THEY IMMEDIATELY PUT THE
OXYGEN MASK ON HIM AND
WISKED HIM AWAY.
Reporter: IN THE
EMERGENCY ROOM, DOCTORS
DISCOVERED A SUB ARRACNOID
HEMORRHAGE.
NEARLY HALF OF ALL PEOPLE
WITH A RUPTURED BRAIN
ANEURYSM DIE, AND THOSE WHO
SURVIVE LIKELY HAVE SEVERE
BRAIN DAMAGE.
THEY HAD TO PUT A DRAIN
IN HIS HEAD TO DRAW THE
BLOOD OUT OF HIS HEAD.
HE JUST HAD TUBES COMING OUT
FROM EVERYWHERE.
WHEN I SAW THE LOOK ON THE
DOCTOR'S FACE AND HEARD THE
REPORT OF THE ANEURYSM, THAT
THERE WERE FEW SURVIVORS
THAT SURVIVED A BRAIN
ANEURYSM, I KNEW THAT THINGS
WERE VERY, VERY GRAVE.
Reporter: DOCTORS
PERFORMED SURGERY TO STOP
THE BLEEDING, BUT CLINT HAD
ALREADY SLIPPED INTO A
COMA.
THEY DIDN'T EXPECT HIM TO
LIVE THROUGH THE THE NIGHT.
BY THIS TIME, PEOPLE AROUND
THE GLOBE WERE PRAYING AND
FASTING FOR CLINT'S
RECOVERY.
WE IMMEDIATELY STARTED TO
PRAY AND DECIDED THAT WE
WOULD LET THE MEDICAL
COMMUNITY DO THEIR JOB AND
THAT WE WOULD DO THE THING
THAT WE KNEW HOW TO DO BEST,
AND THAT WAS TO STAND BY HIS
BED.
Reporter: CLINT
SURVIVED, BUT NOT WITHOUT
COMPLICATIONS.
HIS BLOOD PRESSURE SOARED,
AND HE DEVELOPED PNEUMONIA
AND AN INFECTION.
DOCTORS WARNED DANA IF CLINT
HAD A SECOND ANEURYSM, HE
WOULD NOT SURVIVE.
TWO DAYS LATER, HE WENT INTO
CARDIAC ARREST, AND HE HAD A
SECOND ARTERY EXPLODE IN HIS
HEAD.
CALL THE CODE.
I KNEW AT THAT MOMENT
THAT CLINT WAS SLIPPING OUT
OF MY HANDS.
AND THAT IF GOD DID NOT
INTERVENE, WE WERE GOING TO
LOSE HIM.
AND IMMEDIATELY I STOOD BY
HIS BED AND I STARTED
REBUKING THE SPIRIT OF
DEATH.
AND I SAID, NO, YOU CANNOT
COME HERE.
YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITYRITY
AUTHORITY -- AUTHORITY IN
THIS PLACE.
I DECLARED LIFE.
LIVE, LIVE CLINT.
Reporter: DOCTORS
RESUSCITATED CLINT, AND
PREPARED HIM FOR THE SECOND
SURGERY FOR THE SECOND
ARTERY THAT BURST.
BEFORE THEY COULD OPERATE,
SOMETHING CHANGED.
THE NEUROSURGEON CAME IN
AND HE SHOCK HIS HEAD, AND
HE SAYS MRS. ADAMS, YOUR
HUSBAND IS A PERPLEX
PERPLEXITY TO US.
THREE TIMES NOW HE HAS
SKIRTED THIS.
WE WERE GETTING READY,
PREPPING HIM, TO TAKE HIM IN
TO DO BRAIN SURGERY, TO FIND
OUT WHERE THE HEMORRHAGING
WAS COMING FROM.
AND AN HOUR AGO, HE STARTED
TO IMPROVE.
WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
AND ALL WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW
IS JUST SAY THAT WE WILL
FOLLOW HIS PROGRESS.
Reporter: DOCTORS WERE
NOT OPTMISTIC ABOUT HIS FULL
RECOVERY.
CAT SCANS SHOWED THE SPEECH
AND MOTOR AREAS OF CLINT'S
BRAIN WERE BADLY DAMAGED AND
HE WOULD HAVE PERMANENT AND
SEVERE NEUROLOGIC
IMPAIRMENT.
I GOT VERY, VERY TIRED
AND WEPT AND WONDERED HOW
LONG THIS TRIAL WAS GOING TO
LAST.
BUT I ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT
GOD WAS GOING TO SOMEHOW
HEAL MY HUSBAND.
Reporter: DANA'S FAITH
NEVER WAVERED.
SHE REMINDED GOD OF HIS
PROMISE TO TAKE CARE OF
THEM.
AND YOU SAID THAT I COULD
CALL ON YOU.
AND TODAY IS THE DAY OF
ADVERSITY.
I NEED YOU, AND I NEED YOU
NOW.
BECAUSE THERE IS NO HOPE.
THERE IS NO WAY MY HUSBAND
IS GOING TO COME OUT OF THIS
UNLESS YOU GIVE ME A
MIRACLE, LORD.
Reporter: ON JULY 27,
23 DAYS AFTER THE FIRST
ANEURYSM, CLINT WOKE UP AND
A FEW DAYS LATER, HE STARTED
TO SPEAK.
AND WE PRAYED THAT HE
WOULD START TALKING, AND
WHEN HE STARTED TALKING, HE
WON'T STOP.
Reporter: AFTER 52 DAYS
IN THE HOSPITAL, CLINT LEFT
IN GOOD CONDITION.
TODAY, CLINT HAS FULLY
RECOVERED, EXCEPT SOME
SHORT-TERM MEMORY LOSS.
HE WALKS TWO MILES A DAY,
AND IS LOOKING FORWARD TO
GOING BACK TO HAITI TO
MINISTER.
I AM MORE THANKFUL TODAY
FOR MY WIFE, MY FAMILY, AND
FOR THE SPIRITUAL FAMILY WE
HAVE IN HAITI, THE CHURCH WE
HAVE AND THE BELIEVERS WE
HAVE.
I'M THANKFUL FOR EVERY
MOMENT, EVERY MINUTE THAT WE
HAVE, MORE THAN EVER
BEFORE.
I'M GRATEFUL THAT I HAVE
MY HUSBAND BACK.
I'M GRATEFUL THAT I HAVE THE
FATHER OF MY CHILDREN BACK.
MY LIFE-LONG PARTNER, MY
SOULMATE, MY BEST FRIEND.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE WHOEVER
RECEIVES A REPORT THAT
CONTAINS NO HOPE, FOR THEM
TO TAKE THAT REPORT TO THE
LORD.
PRAYER AND THE WORD OF GOD
IS GREATER THAN ANYTHING
THAT THEY CAN FACE.
