“I think it was his father, mother, and wife who spoke to him,” Kowallis recalled. “They told him they loved him and were praying for him. His father gave him a blessing. His wife mentioned a feeling of peace, that everything would be OK.”
Not long after that conversation, Kowallis and another rescuer, Debbie, crawled down to check on John. What they saw was devastating. Alongside his laboured, gurgling breaths, his legs twitched violently; a sign that his condition was worsening rapidly.Continue reading…
