When a newlywed develops an annoying cough just months after her wedding, she doesn’t think much of it. But after weeks of worsening symptoms and treatments that aren’t helping, she reluctantly accepts that there is something seriously wrong.

But it was almost Christmas, and her new husband had been widowed due to another awful illness. She can’t imagine bringing those memories and that pain back into their home, especially during the holidays. So, she pushes through.

Then her daughter comes home and finds her barely holding on. The woman is rushed to the hospital and receives a diagnosis worse than she ever imagined. Inexplicably strange circumstances—by earthly standards—involving cardinal rules being broken result in her life being saved, but leave her comatose.

Weeks later, she emerges with the scariest and most miraculously inexplicable story of her life.