“When I was young, an incident happened that changed me and my family,” said Meaghan Ababa. She is a 15-year-old sophomore of McKinley High School. She was a victim of a near-death experience at the age of six.
She suffered from a myocarditis inflammation of the heart. But at the time she only felt as though she had nothing more than a cold or fever.
Ababa wrote a paper on this experience for an English class assignment. Later The Pinion took a minute to talk to her.
The Kapiolani Women and Children’s Hospital that Ababa was located in was not set up to perform a heart transplant that she might need, she was then transferred to Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles by the Air Force. As she arrived in LA, the hospital said that her heart had stopped three times. She was then placed in a cardiac assisting machine to keep her alive.
As this happened, Ababa’s brother in Hawaii informed her Sunday School teachers and classmates of the situation. The class bowed their heads and raised their prayers to God, asking him to heal Ababa. At the moment they began to pray, Ababa’s parents saw their daughter’s heart begin to beat independently. Eight years later, Ababa now lives a healthy and active life as a part of McKinley’s soccer team.
The memories of this experience are now vague to her. However, she tries to live a life as an active everyday student, not letting the experience hinder her life.