[From article]
Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro had gone 45 minutes without a pulse when doctors called her family into the operating room and told them there was nothing more they could do.
A team of more than a dozen doctors and nurses had been working desperately to revive her. But now they'd lost hope that the 40-year-old Deerfield Beach woman, whose heart had given out without warning after a routine C-section at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, was going to make it.
Devastated, Graupera-Cassimiro's husband, mother and sister said goodbye to her just hours after they'd welcomed a healthy baby girl. The medical team stopped all lifesaving procedures. They watched a heart monitor, preparing to record a time of death.
And then the impossible happened: A blip of a heartbeat showed up. Then another, and another. Within a few hours, Graupera-Cassimiro, a human resources manager and now a mother of two, was tugging at the breathing tube on her face and scribbling notes to family.
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Graupera-Cassimiro returned to the hospital Tuesday for a tearful reunion with the medical team that fought to save her. She hugged the doctors and nurses -- who cooed over her daughter, dressed head to toe in pink -- and thanked them.
"God had the right people in the right place," Graupera-Cassimiro said as she cradled the sleeping baby, named Taily.
Woman who had no pulse for 45 minutes makes fully recovery; doctors call miraculous
Sun Sentinel, Distributed by MCT Information Services
4:15 PM, Nov 7, 2014
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