When your life is saved miraculously, usually it’s by a person or an animal. Usually it’s not by an inanimate object.
But for Colleen Rowe, a bowl saved her life.
In 2004, Colleen was cooking in her kitchen, like she normally would.
“I had soap on my hands and when I went to reach for the bowl, my hands were a little slippery. So it slipped out of my hands and hit my nose,” explained Colleen.
She thought nothing of it, since immediately, the phone rang.
It was her son, Michael.
She talked to Michael in what she thought was a normal way. But her son noticed immediately that something was wrong.
“She started slurring her words, and the next thing I heard was her collapse on the floor.”
Colleen was sent to the hospital. There, a CT scan revealed that she had an enormous tumor growing on her brain. It had been there for several months.
Her doctors explained that the tumor could be fatal at any time.
“It could cause breathing to stop, or the heart to stop, or someone to become suddenly paralyzed in their arms and legs, irreversibly,” said one of her doctors.
She was operated on immediately, and was given intensive therapy to walk and talk again. At least, that’s what the doctors planned for her.
But Colleen had other plans—just three days after surgery, Colleen was discharged with almost no effects from the surgery.
Michael, her son, can’t believe that his mother’s life is owed to a bowl.
“It’s pretty amazing to think that [the bowl] set in motion a series of events that probably saved her life.”
Her husband agrees.
“It’s a blessing in very deep disguise, but it’s a blessing nonetheless,” he says.
