Fr. Mark Hodges
Victoria Arlen fighting to walk in 2013.
HOLLYWOOD, California, October 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — After Victoria Arlen spent four years in a “vegetative” state, many in the medical establishment had given up on her. Now she’s whirling across a stage competing on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”
At age 11, Arlen started showing signs of two rare disorders that caused swelling in her brain and spinal cord. But doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong.
Untreated, she began to lose function in her legs, then her hands and arms. She couldn’t swallow and couldn’t think of the words she wanted to say. Ultimately, her body shut down completely. She fell into a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS).
After two years, nothing had changed on the outside, but Arlen “woke up inside a body that could not move.” She later explained, “I could hear the conversations going on around me, but I had no way of alerting anyone that I was aware they were there.”
Doctors told Arlen’s parents that there was no hope. The experts said their daughter would be a “vegetable” for the rest of her life.
Though no one
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