A Baltimore grandmother who was clinically dead for 45 minutes after suffering a heart attack was revived at the same hospital where her daughter was simultaneously undergoing an emergency C-section just rooms away.
Kathy Patten was on the golf course July 2 when she got the call that her daughter Stacey Fifer was going into labor with Patten's eighth grandchild.
Arriving at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, and anxiously waiting by her side, Patten suddenly began to feel sick.
Medical workers recommended she head to the center's Emergency Room, but even with her proximity due to being within the same building, Patten never made it there before going into cardiac arrest, WMAR reported.
Kathy Patten (left) suffered a heart attack at the hospital while awaiting the birth of her eighth grandchild, and was clinically dead for 45 minutes before being revived. Meanwhile her daughter Stacey Fifer was forced to undergo an emergency C-section while her mother was recovering just rooms away
With a new lease on life, Patten said she would make the most of her second chance with her new granddaughter Alora (pictured)
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With no pulse, blood pressure or oxygen going to her brain, Patten was clinically dead for 45 minutes while doctors continued to administer CPR. Miraculously, doctors said, she woke up with no damage to her brain, and has since made a full recovery.
'I’m so grateful God gave me a second chance. I’m just going to be the best person I can be,' Patten said, according to WJZ.
'It’s very scary, coming back is a second chance of life.'
Despite the grim prognosis, doctors there said they were determined to bring Patten back.
'Nobody was going to stop. Nobody was going to relent from anything they were doing. We wanted you to survive more than anything else,' Dr. David Vitberg, who helped with the resuscitation told Patten, WBAL reported.
'You asked why we didn't give up. We
