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“Hey, Babe!”
The Story of the Miracle Mom,
Meredith Vining Parker
by James E. Cossey
ITTING ACROSS the table from woman in her 20s, suffered a massive heart third unproductive shock treatment,
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me in my office, the attractive attack at her home. Meredith recalls that she Jonathan reached for his Bible and, at the
young couple smiled brightly had “gone to check on Olivia.” Suddenly her beginning of the fifth shock, placed it on
and responded enthusiastically heart started racing so wildly that Jonathan her feet and cried out to God for his
to my questions while the had her sit down on the bed. Momentarily, young wife. It was on that fifth shock
young father lovingly held their infant she started gasping for breath and became that her heart began to beat again, and
daughter. Jonathan and Meredith Parker unconscious with no measurable pulse. on the ninth shock the heartbeat stabi-
were recounting both the darkest and the Jonathan, an officer with the Chat- lized. Paramedics took her first to
brightest days of their lives. tanooga Police Department, immediately SkyRidge Medical Center in Cleveland,
On June 24, 2008, Meredith gave birth called 911 and began CPR. In just eight Tennessee, where she was then airlifted
by Cesarean section to a healthy baby girl, minutes, paramedics arrived and took to Cardiac ICU at Erlanger Medical Cen-
Olivia. Eight days later, on July 2, Meredith, over efforts to resuscitate Meredith. All ter in Chattanooga, one of the top cardi-
the perfect picture of a healthy young this time, Jonathan was praying. After the ology hospitals in America.
10 EVANGEL • MAY 2009
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