Hear from five-year-old Kaylee how Jesus answered the prayers of loved ones and healed her of a dangerous brain bleed.
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- She's laying there, she's unresponsive
and you feel this total aloneness.
And I kept praying,"God, just give me peace.
Just give me peace and just be with her."
And I would hold her handand just kind of rub her arm
because I didn't know what else to do.
- [Narrator] MichelleTurley's daughter, Kayleigh,
was a healthy, activefive-year-old full of life
and excited to start kindergarten.
Then one night in 2019 shecomplained of a severe headache,
vomited and passed out.
- I just knew with the mother instinct
that something was wrong andsomething was, not just a virus
or something along that nature
but I didn't know for sure what it was.
- [Narrator] They rushedher to the hospital
and soon found out Kayleighhad an AVM, a tangled cluster
of blood vessels that rupturedresulting in a brain bleed
that could cause paralysis or worse.
- I knew brain bleeds could end lives.
And I didn't wanna lose my baby.
And I remember just sayingover and over again,
"God, please.
Please, please God, please heal my baby.
Don't take my baby."
I called mom and I said,"Call brother Robbie,
call the church, get prayers going."
- The family had alreadybeen much in prayer
and we had prayed, but wegathered again and prayed
'cause we realized atthat moment she really
needed a miracle.
- [Narrator] Her brother,Caisson, remembers the uncertainty
of the moment.
- I was scared of what's gonnahappen because it was one
of the few times I'd seendad almost, dad in tears.
Like, I knew it was not good.
- [Narrator] Kayleigh'scondition was so severe
she was airlifted toArkansas Children's Hospital.
Dr. Gregory Albert was her neurologist.
- Being in the left temporallobe it was pushing on the part
of her brain that would allow her to speak
and to understand speechas well as causing pressure
on the parts of her brainthat allow her to move
the right side of her body.
About 25% of people whohave bleeding from their AVM
end up either dying or having a permanent,
serious neurological problem.
- It was, it's justsomething you can't forget.
It, it hurt.
You feel helpless.
There's nothing you can do.
Just see her like it.
- By the time that theyairlifted her there were people
across multiple statesthat were crying out to God
for Kayleigh, by that point.
- [Narrator] Their prayerswere being answered quickly.
By the time the LifeFlightarrived in Little Rock
the bleeding had stopped.
Still, she lay unresponsive.
- When she was in theICU room I kept thinking,
"How many times have I justwanted Kayleigh to just hush?"
'Cause she is a motormouth, she likes to talk.
And I kept thinking, "How many times
have I told her to hush?"
And I'd give you anything rightnow just to hear her talk.
- [Narrator] The Turley'swaited and prayed as Kayleigh
lay unconscious for days.
And then, a moment of hope.
- We had started seeing some motion in her
that we hadn't been seeing.
She finally looked at meand said, "Mom, I'm hungry."
It was mumbled but to hear hersay that, that meant so much.
And one other thing rightbefore they took her back
for her angiogram, Ilooked at her and said,
"Baby, I love you to the moon and back."
And she said, "I love you the most.
I said it first."
And that's kind of ourlittle saying that we have,
and to hear her say thatit immediately let me know
that it's gonna be okay.
It was such wonderfulwords to hear her say
that after two days now of nothing.
And her to say that it's likeGod's here and God's healing.
It is gonna be okay.
- [Narrator] Over the next few days
Kayleigh's condition improved remarkably.
- I really expected that shewould need to spend some time
on inpatient rehabilitationregaining her strength
and her speech functions,
but those all came back very quickly
and she was able to go straight home
about five days aftershe first arrived to us.
- [Narrator] Still doctorssaid Kayleigh would need
brain surgery to remove the AVM.
Three months later, shereturned to the hospital
for a pre-op MRI.
Her mom prayed for another miracle.
- I felt all alone and Iwent to the waiting room
and I was sitting there andjust prayed, just kept praying
and just kept praying.
I looked up and the doctorand his assistant was coming
down the hallway witha smile on their face
and they gave me this right here.
And I thought, "Yay, it's good news."
And he said, "We got inthere and there was nothing."
He said, "I don't knowif the body absorbed it,
I don't know what happened,"he said, "but something."
And I said, "I can tell you what happened.
God healed her.
She is healed."
- It was surprising to me thatthe AVM was no longer visible
at three months, that Icould not see it on the MRI,
I've not had that happen before.
And it was definitely asurprise, but a happy surprise.
- I told the doctor that Jesus healed me
and I didn't have to have surgery.
- [Narrator] Kayleigh was healed.
Her family remains thankfulfor the care they received
from the hospital staff andthe miracle they received
from the Lord.
- My entire life I've seen Goddo miracles as heal Kayleigh,
heal somebody that there was no way
anything else could have healed they.
- We know that God works miracles.
And in our local church we are convinced
that when we call, God answers.
- Words can't expressthe feeling it is to know
that people across theUnited States was praying.
Thanks is not enoughfor all of these people.
I would love just to be ableto send everybody something
to show the gratitude andappreciation for their prayers.
And I just, every night thank God
just for one more day with my family.
- Hi everyone, I'm gladthat y'all prayed for me
and praise the Lord.
I had a brain bleed but Jesus healed me.
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