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0:00:05 > 0:00:07- I'd just started - as a teacher at Glantaf.
0:00:08 > 0:00:09- It was a lesson after lunch.
0:00:10 > 0:00:14- I saw the headmaster and the head - of department in the doorway.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18- They said that something - had happened to my mother...
0:00:18 > 0:00:23- ..and that I needed to go to - Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr.
0:00:24 > 0:00:28- The doctor came and took - my maternal grandmother...
0:00:28 > 0:00:31- ..my father, my brother - and myself into a room.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35- He said that my mother - had suffered a brain haemorrhage.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39- A subarachnoid brain haemorrhage.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43- That, unfortunately, a scan - showed 75% damage to the brain.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46- That there was no hope.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51- The only option was to switch - the machine off in two days.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55- We went home, no-one talking.
0:00:56 > 0:00:57- I just felt...
0:00:58 > 0:01:00- ..what will I do - without my mother?
0:01:01 > 0:01:05- You think that your mother - will always be there.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09- The next day, a Thursday, - my way of dealing with it...
0:01:09 > 0:01:13- ..was to think, right, - Mam wants to donate her organs.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18- We arranged the funeral, - spoke to the chapel minister.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21- On Friday, they gathered evidence...
0:01:21 > 0:01:24- ..to give us the right - to switch off the machine.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29- It was starting to sink in, - the feeling of losing Mam.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34- As she lay there, - you could see her eyes flickering.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38- They just said, it's a reflex, - don't read anything into it.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41- We spoke to her...
0:01:41 > 0:01:44- ..for at least - ten or fifteen minutes...
0:01:44 > 0:01:46- ..and she just opened her eyes.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52- Mam? Mam! Mam! Can you hear me?
0:01:53 > 0:01:56- The next thing, she raised her hand - and touched my face.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03- From that point, - all she did was get better.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08- Family friend Rhuanedd - and Stephen's wedding day.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11- Mam came out on that day.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15- Rhuanedd came out of the chapel - and Mam was standing there.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19- Everyone thought - she was going to die.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22- 17 years later, she's still with us.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26- It just shows, in my opinion, - that miracles can happen.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27- So, that's it.
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