Early Thanksgiving morning, Matt and Amy Knabe found themselves suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, but a holiday miracle was racing toward them...
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- Thanksgiving is like my favorite holiday
in the whole entire world.
I love family get togethers
and we're really close with our families.
I mean, it's just a really big event
and it's a big deal andit's my favorite day.
- [Narrator] In 2017, AmyKnabe was looking forward
to another Thanksgiving Day celebration
at her parents house.
She still had a couple dishes to make
but around 4 am Thanksgiving morning,
she woke up feeling ill.
- It's the weirdest feelinglike thick, and like heavy,
like the air just felt heavy
and I felt like I couldn't breathe well
and it was this horrible headache.
Nothing is computing,nothing really makes sense.
- [Narrator] But one thoughtdid cut through the fog,
the health of her unborn baby.
She already had one miscarriage
and it had taken years of trying
before she and her husband, Matt,
found success throughin vitro fertilization.
She was now seven months pregnant.
- The whole entire pregnancy,
it was just like one thing after another.
I was so worried if Ithink about being pregnant
that I just assumed it was something
to do with like my pregnancy.
- [Narrator] By now Matt had woken up
and was headed downstairs looking for Amy,
but he was also disorientedand struggling to breathe.
- I felt like my mymind was moving to mush.
Like I couldn't recall things,I couldn't think of things
but I knew it wasgetting worse downstairs.
My knees were really, really weak
and I definitely hadtrouble holding myself up.
- [Narrator] He foundAmy asleep on the couch
and helped her back upstairs to bed.
But when she said shewas also feeling sick,
he knew something was wrong.
Grabbing his phone, Mattheaded back downstairs
trying desperately to call 911.
- I could not think of the numbers 911,
like I knew there was anemergency number to call
but it's like I couldn'tformulate it in my head.
I ended up opening my phone
and was able to see my dad'spicture and dialed that.
- When he called I wasscared and I was anxious,
'cause I didn't have anyidea I was dealing with.
And he says, "Dad, I've got a problem.
I'm feeling really sick and dizzy.
Come over as soon as you can and help us,
we really need your help.
Can you come?
- [Narrator] Matt hung upthen passed out on the couch.
His dad Mark jumped in his car and prayed
as he sped towards thehouse 20 minutes away.
- I said, "Lord, listen,I wanna listen to you.
I want your wisdom and your discernment.
What do you want me todo in this situation?
I don't know what I'm gonna be finding
when I get over there.
- [Narrator] Making thetrip and half the time,
Mark ran into the houseto find Matt and Amy
disoriented and sick, but still alive.
All signs pointed to one thing,carbon monoxide poisoning.
Quickly he helped themoutside into the fresh air
and called 911.
- That was a very anxiousmoment during that whole thing.
That's when I was so thankful.
It was minutes, not even minutes
and it seemed like the firetruck came.
- [Narrator] Firefighters discovered
the Knabe's gas furnace had malfunction
and the amount of carbon monoxidethat leaked into the house
should have been lethal.
Fire Captain, Michael Griffinwas on the scene that morning.
- In industrial settings,you can have up to 50 parts
per million for eighthours without symptoms.
They had found over 240 parts
per million of carbon monoxide.
With the level of carbonmonoxide that we found
in their residence, I was greatly relieved
that they were actually conscious
and outside in the fresh air.
But obviously they stillneeded to get treated for that
because they're stillretaining that in their blood.
- [Narrator] They gave Matt and Amy oxygen
and rush them to thehospital to be checked out.
They were out of danger,but doctors weren't sure
how or if the gas thataffected their unborn child.
- They didn't know what to do.
They were just like we'venever had this happen
with a pregnant person.
I just wanted her out, I wantedher out and to like hold her
and to know that she was okay.
- [Narrator] The couples spendThanksgiving in the hospital
grateful to be alive andurge their friends and family
to pray for their baby's life.
- We got our church, we got our family,
we got everybody praying.
Not only for both Matt and Amy to recover,
but also for the baby to be fine.
- The prayer chains, theemails and the encouragement
that was coming around was overwhelming.
- [Narrator] Within a fewdays both had been released.
And over the next twomonths, Amy's doctors
monitored her and the baby closely.
Then on January 20, 2018,Lennon Louise Knabe was born.
- She's perfect and she looked great
and they checked her foreverything and she seemed fine.
- Soon as that little girl was born,
I had a love for her thatI cannot describe to you.
And to see her for thefirst time was overwhelming.
- [Narrator] By then, Matt hadreplaced their faulty furnace
and installed carbon monoxide detectors
throughout their house.
- They were very luckyto survive that exposure.
If it's not for the quickthinking of their family member
and coming over and finding them,
they very easily could have passed away
from their exposure to that.
So it's very important that people have
a carbon monoxide detector in their home.
- [Narrator] Now every Thanksgiving
is a reminder of God's blessings
and the miracle that they are still alive.
- It's reminding medefinitely on Thanksgiving,
how wonderful Our God is,
and how easily He seesus through everything.
- Like I said, I love Thanksgiving anyway,
I love holidays, I lovetradition and family
and it definitely makes youappreciate it even more.
- We look back and go, wow, wecan really see in this moment
where God's hand was in this.
Talk about being thankful.