{"id":107265,"date":"2021-01-05T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T13:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=107265"},"modified":"2021-01-05T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T13:10:13","slug":"shocked-husband-of-former-miss-virginia-is-told-she-has-died-from-covid-then-learns-shes-come-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/shocked-husband-of-former-miss-virginia-is-told-she-has-died-from-covid-then-learns-shes-come-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocked husband of former Miss Virginia is told she has died from Covid then learns she\u2019s \u2018come back to life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A FORMER Miss Virginia has "come back to life" after doctors told her family that she had died of coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barbara Guthrie Lay, who was crowned Miss Virginia in 1958, was rushed to hospital in Roswell, Georgia, on December 20 after she developed trouble breathing.<\/p>\n


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On Christmas Eve, Barbara's husband Tony, who was not allowed into her ICU room because of social-distancing rules, was informed that she had died.<\/p>\n

Following the tragic news, Tony reached out to family members to tell them of her passing.<\/p>\n

However, minutes later Barbara's son Thom Kelley called Tony to say that a pulse had been found.<\/p>\n

It was Thom, a doctor, who was first told that his mother had died and who contacted Tony.<\/p>\n

"As a physician, I will say without hesitation there is only one word for what has happened over the past week \u2014 a miracle," Kelley told\u00a0the Martinsville Bulletin of Virginia.<\/p>\n

The 82-year-old's husband Tony told ABC: " I was overjoyed and tearful again. I went from being miserable and brokenhearted to overjoyed.<\/p>\n

Tony told the media outlet how the near-death experience taught him about his love for his wife.<\/p>\n

"I have always loved my wife," he told the TV station. <\/p>\n

"I just didn\u2019t realize exactly how much until this happened and that I can\u2019t live without her."<\/p>\n

An old friend of Barbara's from Virginia, Howard Huff, said he was going to save a copy of the Bulletin's story to show her when she is discharged.<\/p>\n

"Barbara has not seen a spotlight she didn't like," he joked. <\/p>\n

"She has this incredible will to live and always says she plans to live until she's 101."<\/p>\n

The Lays believe that Barbara contracted the virus after contact with a neighbor.<\/p>\n

Barbara has since been moved out of ICU and into a regular hospital room and has yet to learn about her near-death experience.<\/p>\n


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