T. Scott Marr was admittedly a man of little faith — that was until he had a near-death encounter that should’ve claimed his life, but instead, he lives to tell his miracle tale.
“This whole thing has been a miracle from God,” Scott told KMTV. “I did not die. I didn’t have to die. I’m back here, and I hope to give people some comfort and hope that if they are, in fact, going through anything like that, that it’s a safe place.”
A few weeks ago, Scott stopped answering his phone and all the doors in his house were locked, according to a Facebook post written by his daughter Preston. Though he seemed just fine that morning, Scott’s girlfriend Darlene became concerned when she couldn’t get into the house and all the lights were out, so she called his son Drew.
Drew broke in to find Scott totally unresponsive in bed, and he was immediately rushed to an Omaha hospital where his children were told their dad had suffered a massive brain stem stroke as well as swelling that led to anoxic brain injury.
“Each thing is detrimental alone & all combined is not survivable,” wrote Preston.
Doctors eventually broke the devastating news that Scott’s brain injury was irreversible and had led to “brain death.”
“Each time we would leave the hospital, we would kind of say our final goodbyes,” Preston told Fox. “We thought we would never hear his voice again, see him open his eyes, and see who we were.”
After discovering that he wasn’t eligible for organ donation, Scott’s children made the heartbreaking decision to have their dad’s breathing tubes removed, knowing it’s what he would want.
“Us kids knowing dad, knew he didn’t want us sitting around and just waiting for something we thought was impossible to happen,” explained Preston. “So we decided to extubate him and be there with him in his last moments. He wasn’t breathing around the vent which meant he wasn’t breathing on his own. We were told he would pass quickly, possibly in minutes, as far as they knew.”
But after they pulled the plug, the unimaginable happened. Scott managed to keep breathing on his own.
After the kids were encouraged to go home and get some rest that night, they came back to visit their dad the next morning to check on his condition.