1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to Story Behind Podcast. This is the 2 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: show for people who love hearing a good story and 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: who believe the world could use more positivity. We're the 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: team behind God Updates and God Too, and we hope 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: these weekly short stories will brighten your day. 6 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 2: After a scary emergency surgery, this dad made it in 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,160 Speaker 2: time to see his son being born. Written by MICHAELA. Gordoney, 8 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 2: read by Julie Propost. A new dad makes his son's 9 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 2: birth and just the nick of time. After an appendix 10 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 2: removal surgery, he was able to get to the delivery 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 2: room throw still in bandages and hospital socks, to be 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 2: with his wife during the birth, just in time. The 13 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 2: new dad, Matt Sharp, was rushed to Honor Health Saurian 14 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 2: Hospital and Phoenix, Arizona, with a case of appendicitis. He 15 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 2: had surgery later the same day. 16 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 3: I woke up. 17 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 2: I was like shaking in kind of sweaty. I'm like, okay, 18 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: something's not right here, he recalled. It was just hours 19 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 2: after his emergency surgery that he'd get the call that 20 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 2: his wife was in labor. When Matt got the call, 21 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 2: he immediately paid his nurse, Hey, I need you guys 22 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 2: to break me out of here as soon as possible. 23 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 2: He said, I was still waiting on one more signature 24 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: from a doctor to release me soon. He was escorted 25 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 2: to the delivery room, where he got to be there 26 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 2: for his wife when she gave birth to their son, Colton, 27 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 2: weighing seven pounds two ounces. That was something I did 28 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: not want to do alone. He was there at the 29 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 2: nicked time. His wife said it was perfect. It was 30 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 2: really perfect. The timing was good, Matt said happily. His 31 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 2: wife agreed it was good. Yes, it definitely was. They, 32 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 2: like me, would have had a lot of anxiety if 33 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 2: they were not able to be together for delivery. Thank 34 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 2: God that they could be reunited in time and are 35 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 2: enjoying the new baby boy. For I know the thoughts 36 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 2: that I think toward you, says yahweh thoughts of peace 37 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 2: and not. 38 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,279 Speaker 3: Of evil, to give you hope in a future. 39 00:01:45,360 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 2: Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. Comas survivors turned sweethearts get 40 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 2: engaged at the hospital where it all began, written by MICHAELA. 41 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 2: GORDONI read by Jolly Provost. When you think about COMA 42 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 2: survivors getting engaged, you'd think that they must have been 43 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 2: in a relationship and suffered a severe accident together, or 44 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 2: something along those lines. But this case of romance is 45 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 2: even more incredible. Zach Zyerbinski and Isabel Richmond were teens, 46 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 2: each suffering from traumatic injuries when they met at a 47 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 2: Minnesota hospital after waking from their comas. The couple just 48 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 2: got engaged at the same hospital last month. It was 49 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen when Zach suffered a brain bleed and 50 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 2: collapsed on the sideline of a football game. Isabel had 51 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 2: a severe head injury due to a car accident shortly after. 52 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 3: Zach had become conscious before Isabel. 53 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 2: Who was in a coma for two and a half months, 54 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 2: he met and comforted Isabel's family, reassuring them that Isabelle 55 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 2: would be all right. 56 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 3: I just felt like I knew she would be okay. 57 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 2: My spirit told me she was going to be okay, 58 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 2: he said, even though he hadn't met Isabelle yet. When 59 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 2: she eventually woke, the two met and took a photo together. 60 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 2: Six years passed before their mother's organs nice at dinner 61 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 2: between their families. Then they exchanged numbers and began dating. 62 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 2: A month later. I knew she was the one, Zack said, 63 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: a romantic. Zach had looked back through his journal and 64 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 2: found when he recorded their first date reconnected. 65 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 3: From the first one. When we met, our spirits were 66 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 3: meant to be, he said. Zach proposed to Isabel. At 67 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 3: the hospital where they met. 68 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 2: The staff dropped a hospital curtain to reveal a huge 69 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 2: rose covered heart. Right as Zach said, will you marry me? 70 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 2: As an even bigger miracle than the incredible love story 71 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 2: is the fact that they're both alive. Both of their 72 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: accents were very serious. As an amt I just knew 73 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 2: this is not good, said Zach's mom, recalling his collapse. 74 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 2: Isabel's mom, however, it was not with her. When she 75 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 2: had got into her terrible car wreck at the hospital, 76 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 2: I said, tell me if my daughter's alive, tell me 77 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:43,119 Speaker 2: if she's dead. 78 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 3: She literally looks like an angel, just slaying there. Her 79 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 3: mom said. 80 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 2: She had shards of glass in her hair still, and 81 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 2: she was unconscious. The doctors told Isabel's family that she 82 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 2: may never walk or speak again when she wakes, but 83 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 2: they found hope by seeing Zach. Zach is a living, 84 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 2: breathing miracle, just like Isabel, Isabel's mom said. 85 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 3: Zach. I told Isabelle I just. 86 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 2: Really enjoy how every day you wake up with a smile, 87 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 2: and if you can't even wake up with a smile, 88 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 2: you wake up with a positive attitude. Isabelle told him, 89 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 2: I know that somedays are really hard for you, and 90 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,119 Speaker 2: then you just keep pushing through saying God is good. 91 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 2: Their story sounds like a movie and it couldn't have 92 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 2: a more perfect ending. 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