“She came over and she was crying, and she just basically kind of collapsed on the couch next to me, just bawling her eyes out,” recalls Jerry Iverson. “And I said, what's wrong? And she said, ‘I don't know.’”

Jerry and Shannon Iverson were vacationing with their children when the trip took a terrifying turn. The first day, Shannon began complaining of severe headaches. Then suddenly, things got much worse.

“This fear just came over me,” Jerry remembers. “And, she said, the whole left side of my body is numb. We had her laying on her side and we were praying over her. And things did not seem to be getting better at all. It was just a very panicky moment, you know, we didn't know what was going on.”

Paramedics suspected a stroke and rushed Shannon to a nearby hospital, where doctors deli

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