Thanks for directing me here Mark. My heart goes out to you and your family.

I am glad to see from your replies that your son is now home. You mentioned a long road. That was two months ago. Are you up for giving an update?

I'm gonna bounce around a bit now. I completely agree with Emily that the hospital worker delivered a channeled message to you. Very often, the channel is not aware that is what happened. You delivered me a channeled message a few months ago. https://medium.com/@mark.krauss21/just-a-touch-and-go-marcus-cdb2afdd9be3 Now I see there is other context to "it's tough to pull back" that I can read into your comment as you left it on 4/1 just 20 days before you posted this piece about your son but I still feel it contained a message from my friend Jason, about whom I had recently written a piece on March 6th which would have been his 56th birthday (he passed in 2013) and had been thinking about reaching out to him through my channeler, which I finally did about a week after your message. I think Jason knew I was thinking about finally making contact and that's why you said, "see you in a minute."

I highlighted those words from the hospital worker because, as I see Emily touched on already, I firmly believe that our exit dates are predetermined while free will affects how we live and how we die but not when we die. That they are hard written into our soul contracts or as I prefer to call them, our improv scripts. And that our souls write the plans, not God, but God signs off on them. If you feel the pull, you can see my God Loves Us Unconditionally that goes into that sign off process https://medium.com/p/45c54c297e52. That's a bit different than what the hospital worker said but I wouldn't expect a random statement in an elevator not to stick to a more accepted religious concept that god actively decides during a lifetime.

My channeler Anne, who I have become friends with over the 13 years I have worked with her, is going through a similar situation as you, at least with what a parent feels--I don't know your facts. Her adult daughter suffered an acquired brain injury in mid May. I described the situation in this story in May https://medium.com/@marcus17043/i-am-sitting-by-her-bedside-right-now-begging-her-not-to-leave-me-keep-me-and-my-baby-girl-in-c0d12661d5a3 and asked the community to come together and pray for her and her daughter because while that excercise of our free will won't extend her life it may improve its quality. I requested a special form of prayer where we don't ask God for a result but feel the result we want but understood that people will pray in their own way and I received many great comments and well wishes that I passed along.

I do think the collective energy has helped a bit. Anne said she could feel a shift in the room but Marissa's condition has not improved beyond about 4 weeks ago when her eyes started to track people and she would occasionally cry. I posted this follow up which also includes a poem I wrote to Anne reminding her of all that we have learned about life and death in our many discussions with dearly departed and my not incarnated spirit guides. https://medium.com/the-taoist-online/keep-faith-and-hope-of-love-and-light-when-tragedy-strikes-ccc3abe2b307

The only change since I posted that is that Marissa has been transferred to a nursing home type facility just 50 yards from Anne's house, and Anne said the staff is great and now Anne can pop in and out and get more work done, which she needs to do.