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Friday, December 22, 2017

Myth-Taken by Santa


Miracle Girl: Myth-Taken by Santa

Children often come back from preschool with contagious diseases. I brought back a belief in Santa Claus.
It didn't take long, though, before the budding skeptic in me cottoned onto the deception....
'Santa is a fake! And all those Santas, in all those malls, they’re all fake too!'
Does the Santa myth remind you of something else?
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  1. gracejayden61September 24, 2020 at 10:37 PM

    My epiphany that about the Santa myth when I was four was the first stirring of ... Her idea that she could raise me without Santa Claus was, however, myth-taken. ... A Heartbroken Farewell to Stephanie Savage, "Miracle Girl".click here

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  2. RoonieSeptember 20, 2021 at 2:27 AM

    Truth be told, between my sibling, sister and myself, I'm astounded there was any opportunity for my Mom and Dad to see. letter to santa

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Coma Girl

Not a miracle recovery, but a miracle of modern medicine

In 2013 I fell into a six-week coma and nearly died after I contracted legionella. The Legionnaire's disease was in turn triggered by immunosuppression caused by the prednisone I was taking for my rare autoimmune disease, dermatomyositis.

I suffered a series of strokes on both sides of my brain when the sepsis caused my blood pressure to plummet. I fell into a deep coma. My kidneys and lungs began to fail, as my body was began dying one organ at a time. My doctors told my loved ones to give up hope for my full recovery. They expected me to die, and even if I somehow lived, I would remain a vegetable or at best left so hopelessly brain-damaged that I would never be same. But unbeknownst to them, while they were shining lights in my eyes and shaking their heads, I was telling them in my coma-dream--my secular version of a near-death experience--to leave me alone because I was trying to get back to sleep. I was experiencing what is known as covert cognition, the subject of my Skeptical Inquirer article "Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience," which appeared in their July/August issue.

But it wasn't a miracle--despite what so many continue to believe--that I recovered so fully. I owe my life not to God, but the miracles of modern medicine, as well as the nature of the watershed-area brain damage I suffered, as I detailed in my article and in this blog.