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Title: Photo captures image of an 'angel' in hospital hallway
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URL Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/141/story/431132.html
Published: Dec 23, 2008
Author: By Jane Duckwall
Post Date: 2008-12-23 14:40:04 by gengis gandhi
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Photo captures image of an 'angel' in hospital hallway In dark time, mom of Mint Hill teen sees light of hope By Jane Duckwall Special Correspondent SlideshowLoading previous next When Chelsea Banton was born five weeks prematurely, doctors predicted she had 36 hours to live. Proving them wrong was the first miracle for Chelsea, now an Independence High School freshman. “She spent the first four months in a neonatal intensive care unit,” recalls her mother, Colleen Banton of Mint Hill. Before Chelsea was 2, she was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia, the first of several dangerous run-ins with the illness that have made her a familiar face in Presbyterian's pediatric intensive care unit. Among other health problems in her medical history: hydrocephalus, requiring a shunt in her skull and, later, several shunt revisions; life-threatening viruses; and, this past July, fluid retention that required more than a week's hospitalization and three liters of liquid to be drawn from her body. Prayer has helped sustain the whole family. “We had been praying every day, my oldest daughter and I and Chelsea,” Colleen Banton said. “…Praying for a miracle.” That miracle, Colleen believes, came Nov. 5 – seven weeks after Chelsea was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia. What originally seemed like a bad cold nearly killed her. “She was on life-support from the moment she got there,” her mother said. That was Sept. 21. Over the next six weeks in the hospital, Chelsea faced one threat after another: pneumonia in her left lung, then her right lung, then sepsis, blood clots, staph infections, E. coli, a collapsed lung and feeding problems. In late October, doctors met with the family to discuss “a plan of action,” Colleen said. One of the decisions she had to make was whether she would take Chelsea off the ventilator. Earlier, doctors had removed Chelsea from the ventilator several times, but had replaced it when the struggle to breathe became too difficult for the teen. But a family meeting Oct. 31 was a turning point. “At that point, the family… agreed that when she did come off the ventilator again, (they) weren't putting it back in,” Colleen said. “Whatever happened, would happen.” On Saturday, Nov. 1, “they took her off the ventilator and she did good,” her mother said. “She was breathing on her own.” The next day, “her stats went down,” and doctors put her in an oxygen mask. But over the next few days, Colleen noticed her daughter “wasn't getting better. Things were kind of lingering.” And Chelsea, who had been having anxiety attacks and crying throughout her hospital stay, was having more of them. “I said, ‘She's been through enough,'” Colleen remembers. “I said, ‘Can we just take her mask off? She's been through enough.' “I wanted to do what the Lord wanted me to do. And I really felt like I've had her for 14 years, and if it's time for her to go to heaven, then I know she'll be healed.” The mask didn't come off immediately, though. They waited until family members had a chance to come to see Chelsea – perhaps for the last time. On the afternoon of Nov. 5, as family and friends prayed about the decision, a nurse practitioner called Colleen's attention to a monitor showing the door to the pediatric intensive care unit. “On the monitor, there was this bright light,” Colleen recalls. “And I looked at it and I said, ‘Oh my goodness! It looks like an angel!” Colleen pointed her digital camera at the monitor to take a photo of the image, but the “first picture wouldn't take.” She tried again and succeeded. The image gave her a peace that stayed with her when hospital staff removed Chelsea's oxygen mask. And then, “when they took the mask off of her, her stats went as high as they've ever been. “Her color was good, and the doctors and nurses were amazed,” Colleen said. “The nurse practitioner who saw the image in the monitor said, ‘I've worked here 15 years, and I've never seen anything like it.'” Chelsea was removed from intensive care on Nov. 14 and went home three days later. Her mother believes it was a miracle – attended by a very real angel bathed in light at the door to the pediatric intensive care unit. “What was so ironic… is it was a rainy day,” Colleen said. “It had been overcast all day. And the sun only came out at that point.” To those who doubt her story and photograph, Colleen Banton says: “If they doubt it, that's fine. … But I know what I saw, and the picture's untouched. I didn't make it up. That's just something that I believe. “I believe that more people have changed since this happened. I know I have. I look at things differently than I used to – because I know God is in control.” On Christmas Day, Chelsea will turn 15 – another miracle considering all of the medical trials she's faced, according to her mother. “I'm learning,” Colleen Banton said, “that every day she's alive is a miracle.” Poster Comment: more pix at link
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#1. To: gengis gandhi, *Humor-Weird News* (#0)
This is no photo of an angel. It's a picture of glare on a door and two sides of a wall. Look at the top of the glare on the door. Notice how the glare's straight angle parallels the angle of the door? On the small wall separating the two "wings," notice how the bottom of the glare also parallels the angle of the floorboard. The angle of the last wing also parallels the angle of the wall. For the clincher, look at the reflections of the "angel" on the waxed floor. Notice that you see the reflections of the two wings, but the body of the "angel" has mysteriously disappeared. The only angel in this story is the sick child. The photo is bunk. RO
Besides, angels are much smaller and, I understand, they do not have wings. From the Urantia book: PAPER 39 - THE SERAPHIC HOSTS line 178: The erroneous idea that angels possess wings is not wholly due to olden notions that they must have wings to fly through the air. Human beings have sometimes been permitted to observe seraphim that were being prepared for transport service, and the traditions of these experiences have largely determined the Urantian concept of angels. In observing a transport seraphim being made ready to receive a passenger for interplanetary transit, there may be seen what are apparently double sets of wings extending from the head to the foot of the angel. In reality these wings are energy insulators--friction shields. line 179: When celestial beings are to be enseraphimed for transfer from one world to another, they are brought to the headquarters of the sphere and, after due registry, are inducted into the transit sleep. Meantime, the transport seraphim moves into a horizontal position immediately above the universe energy pole of the planet. While the energy shields are wide open, the sleeping personality is skillfully deposited, by the officiating seraphic assistants, directly on top of the transport angel. Then both the upper and lower pairs of shields are carefully closed and adjusted. line 180: And now, under the influence of the transformers and the transmitters, a strange metamorphosis begins as the seraphim is made ready to swing into the energy currents of the universe circuits. To outward appearance the seraphim grows pointed at both extremities and becomes so enshrouded in a queer light of amber hue that very soon it is impossible to distinguish the enseraphimed personality. When all is in readiness for departure, the chief of transport makes the proper inspection of the carriage of life, carries out the routine tests to ascertain whether or not the angel is properly encircuited, and then announces that the traveler is properly enseraphimed, that the energies are adjusted, that the angel is insulated, and that everything is in readiness for the departing flash.
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#3. To: ReallyOrnery (#2)
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