North Carolina pastor declared dead twice now showing signs of life

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A North Carolina pastor might need those organs after all.

After his insides were being prepared for harvesting, Ryan Marlow, 37, who contracted the foodborne bacterial illness Listeria last month and fell into a coma, started showing signs of life after being declared brain dead — twice — the New York Post reported.

Marlow’s wife, Megan, was told that her husband was clinically brain dead on Aug. 27 – as in not exhibiting any brain activity.

“(A nurse) said ‘Your husband has passed,’” Megan told news outlet WXII12.

Then two days later Megan, who spent the time comforting their three children all under the age of six, was told by a doctor that Ryan had actually suffered traumatic brain damage and the time of death would be changed from Aug. 27 to the following morning of Aug. 30.

“I said, ‘He’s still pretty much brain dead right?’ and I was told yes,” Megan claimed.

When she returned Aug. 30 to say goodbye forever to her husband, another relative claimed that the pastor’s feet twitched when he was shown family videos.

“Literally the OR team was ready to take him, and I tell the nurse ‘I need tests done now to see if he’s brain dead,’“ said Megan.

Those tests showed there was blood was flowing to Ryan’s brain and he was not clinically brain dead.

While Ryan remains on life support in a coma, doctors don’t believe he will make a full recovery.

Still, Megan is praying for another miracle.

“He may still go to glory yet,” Megan stated. “(But) this is beyond medical help, this is in the Lord’s hands.”