Katie Murphy, a 14-year-old from Wisconsin, was going about her day when she started noticing her mom acting a bit strange.<\/p>\n
Murphy's mom went to her for help after she was struggling to put toothpaste on her toothbrush, and Murphy told WISN<\/a>, \"[My mom's] speech was all mixed up...I was like, 'maybe she's having a stroke.'\"<\/p> Two days before the incident, Murphy had learned about the signs of a stroke in her science class. She was paying close attention because it was a subject that piqued her interest. She said, \"I thought it was kind of cool and weird that people's speech got mixed up [when they have a stroke].\"<\/p>\n\n Murphy immediately recognized the symptoms she had learned about two days before and called 911. Doctors confirmed that her mom did, in fact, have a stroke.<\/p>\n Although she learned the symptoms of a stroke at school, there were other factors that played into the miracle of Murphy's mom living to tell the tale. Murphy was planning on going to a sleepover the night the stroke happened, but she decided to stay home instead.<\/p>\n Beth Tomlin, the teacher who gave the lesson that saved Murphy's mom's life, believes there were too many miracles involved for this ordeal to be a coincidence. She said to WISN<\/a>, \"I believe that the Lord had it all in his hands. He knew how everything was going to turn out, and there's no other way to put it...was all God's doing.\"<\/p>The science lesson saved her mom<\/h2>\n
It wasn't a coincidence<\/h2>\n