Siouxland Senator Jeff Taylor published a new book looking into an experience that could be called a miracle.
Senator Taylor’s new book departs from his life as an Iowa Senator and Dordt University politics professor, instead diving into what he saw as a miracle when he was 4 years old. Taylor had a severe encephalitis infection and was being taken from Spencer to Sioux City in order to be treated. Taylor describes the experience.
“I was sent by ambulance and my mom rode along with a local nurse, and I actually died along the way. That would have been May 28th, 1965, and I died on the way and arrived D.O.A. There wasn’t any big rush. They got me on the gurney, wheeled into the E.R., and the doctor was filling out my death certificate when the nurse noticed a little bit of movement under the white sheet that was covering me, and that had been at least 30, possibly as long as 45 minutes after my heart stopped, my lungs stopped and all of that.”
The first half of the book explores that experience. Taylor describes the second half.
“The second half of the book is me as an adult, as a researcher, asking myself; ‘Well this is an incredible story, could it really have happened like this? And is there proof that this, that it happened like this?’ And so it’s me digging into the research, doing interviews, getting hospital records, talking to experts. And that’s really the second half of the book of can you document, can you prove a miracle?”
Taylor says he waited a long time to look into his experience, but when he moved back to Siouxland and went to Sioux City more often it kept coming back to mind. He finally spent 3 years researching over ten years ago and eventually wrote. The book which is called ‘A Beautiful Day to Die’. A Beautiful Day to Die is currently for sale online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
