Balloons from Heaven - It's a Miracle - 6033

[Music] and now your host Richard Thomas hello and welcome to it's a miracle I'm especially excited about this episode because the producers have asked me to share some of my favorite stories and memories from the past four seasons and there are plenty of them but before we start looking back I want to share a new story with you one that when I first heard about it instantly became a favorite of mine and once you've seen it you'll understand why [Music] three years after Kelly and Tom Feeney of Elizabeth Colorado married their dream of having a child came true Kelly was pregnant it was fantastic I was scared I was happy I was sad I was everything that you could imagine and Katie was born in April and it was the happiest day of my life when I held Katie for the first time it was really a joy think that God has given you this gift his film enjoy and it wasn't long before they noticed that the gift they'd been given had a special gift of her own the first couple of years with Katie we noticed that she was very intelligent she was just so in tune with people's feelings one night we were watching television and we were talking about angels it's okay do you have an angel yes you do who's her angel Graham Collins I said oh really and she said yeah when do you talk to grandpa Louie in my dreams in your dreams he comes to me at night and he tells me that everything will be okay he's fishing he's fishing she never he met my dad he passed away years before she was ever born and she knew a lot of stuff about him where is he fishing up in the sky and passing his fishing his outdoor adventures those are things that only I would know but Katy's remarkable ability didn't stop there one day when Katie was about three and a half I was taking her to preschool and we were driving in the car and she looks at me and says oh honey mommy and daddy aren't gonna have another baby we have you you know you're handful you're all we need I just thought to myself where does a three-year-old get that it wasn't until weeks later that the meaning of their conversation became clear I wasn't feeling real well and I just thought it was a flu I waited and took a pregnancy test it came back positive and I remember coming downstairs and we told Katie that she was gonna have a little brother or sister mommy and daddy want to tell you something you're gonna be a big sister you're gonna have a little baby brother or a little baby sister to help us take care of and we laughed it off and said no we're only having one no one for me and one for you she was very insistent that we're gonna have to get you happy now we don't know do you want to know yes yeah twin boys and when the doctor confirmed that we were having twins I started thinking well okay first she tells me she wants us to have another baby then she tells me we're having twins what else is she gonna be able to tell me but even with her extraordinary gift little Katy couldn't predict what would happen next pregnancy went along and one morning I woke up after Tom had left for work and I noticed that I'd been bleeding a little bit and I called the hospital and they said you need to come in when they started doing some tests on her and they realized she was dilated just six months into her pregnancy Kelly had gone into labor being that they were only 24 weeks old I think we were all pretty nervous at that point Kelly was rushed to Denver's Presbyterian st. Luke's Medical Center where dr. Richard Perico would attempt to stop her premature labor we evaluated her with ultrasound and an amniocentesis and unhappily found that there was an infection in the first twin in twin a pretty ups of bad news we've got footprints of organisms in the sandy attic fluid I think this pregnancy is infected as a result I had to tell Kelly and Tom that it would be in their best interest to have the pregnancy delivered really yeah terrible of that for you we indicated that these twins would be extremely premature as it is and that the likelihood of survival was essentially zero get it done efficiently meant that an infection had settled in and the medicine that they needed to treat me would harm the babies and if they didn't treat me it could harm in it and I may not survive naturally my first concern was for Kelly the thought of losing her was very real it scared me [Music] the only choice we had was to deliver the babies at that point in time so we went ahead and made that difficult difficult listen once again Katie seemed to know what was happening without even being me well my mommy I remember Katie calling me that night before I delivered them and she said mom are we losing the babies and I tried to get her mind on that focus because I had made it specifically clear to my parents do not tell her that there's something wrong I think she just knows I think she has a sense I'll be home tomorrow and so I thought how am I ever gonna tell her the difficult night past into an agonizing day no sooner had Kelly and Tom welcomed their twin sons into the world then it was time to say goodbye I held Andrew and Tom held miles and Andrew being the bigger of the two he lived for about an hour and a half after he was born miles only lived about 15 minutes [Music] the sound we just so heartbreaking it was almost a struggle he was trying to get through this and we were holding him for the longest time the hospital took pictures and made sure that we had mementos to remember them by and it was just a good time for Tom and I to sit there and reflect and bond with them they'll always be with us will always be with us after the boys passed away Kelly and I both felt an emptiness nothing was going to replace the boys we all felt a tremendous loss it was a very tough time right then both of us the Feeney's returned home where Kelly spent her days inside battling a severe depression there were days where I would just lay on my bed and hold the teddy bear it was just a constant it's like picking at a scab it seems like it never healed her closest friend Barry Anderson tried her best to comfort her I went upstairs Kelly was in the bed we'll get through this and I just crawled in bed with her and we just held each other and cried I promise we'll get through this it was very difficult for me to watch Kelly take on all this hurt herself take care of yourself and I'll take care of everything else I wish I could take the pain away and let her heal but knowing that I could never take the pain away and knowing that I could never truly know how she felt I could only be there for her with Barry's help kelly slowly began coping with her loss and soon realized she wasn't the only one struggling I remember Katie saying to me Mommy I want to see the pictures of their babies and no one had told her that there were pictures oh honey there are no pictures of the babies and she got very upset with me I know there is pictures I know there's pictures and I want to see the pictures but I know there is some picture I mean she was just very very upset so I dug through the pictures and I found one of the two of them together and they were wrapped up in their little blankets with their hats on here's a picture of your little brothers you can have for your room okay and she just treasured that I mean I think at that time she could actually say that she had two little brothers like her parents Katie would have to find a way to say goodbye to her little brothers Tom and I decided that we didn't want a big blown out affair that we wanted something very simple and personal and so we decided just to do a graveside service Andrew and miles were only here for yet a brief time the day before the service Kelly says what am I gonna do with Katie and I said kill I will take care of Katie the wounds have become a ritual with my family do you remember when Brendan talks to his grandpa up in heaven and at the end of the service I explained to her that these balloons will be going to heaven where her brothers are balloons up there you can talk to your brothers I thought that would be a wonderful way for Katie to have some type of healing that is for Andrew it's for miles she was very excited she kissed the balloons and said she was sending kisses and months to her brothers she let the balloons go and we watched him go up and open up don't make it all the way up to heaven she thought they are truly going to heaven I watched him float until the clouds were in the way and I couldn't see him anymore I felt really happy inside and I didn't really feel bad anymore that they died so I just started looking on the bright side and that I was happy Katie's balloons were both a link to her brothers and a big step in letting them go but for her mother healing would prove much more difficult the months following the twins passing was a rollercoaster having to go back to work and having people ask you oh how are the babies and then having to relive it over and over again I'm normally a very happy person always have a smile on my face and I never thought I'd smile again but gradually Kelly's smile did return due in no small part to her daughter Katie for her fifth birthday after her birthday party she had leftover balloons and she wanted to take them out and let them go to heaven so that Andrew miles could celebrate with her so we took the handful of balloons and she kissed each one of them and off they went that was kind of her way of celebrating her birthday with them and a few days later I went to the cemetery and walking up there looking at the gravesite I noticed that there was something laying next to the marker and when I got up there there were the balloons and I thought wow I just was in amazement I thought I can't tell anyone this story because they'll never believe me but it was true Katie's birthday balloons had actually found their way to the twins and they came it's a miracle Epis feeling inside of you just to know that something that travelled that far paint end up in that special place it kind of put a chill through you [Music] I think with the special connection that Katie has and a special little girl that she is sending those balloons to her brother's I think that the boys sent back a little message to her and I said they're okay I've always known that Katie was special I just never knew how special she was I have to believe that Katie has a sense because when you look at her knowing that I was having twins two babies her calling me in the hospital releasing the babies her knowing there were pictures I know there is some pictures the balloons at the gravesite just looking at all of that it's not a coincidence it doesn't make sense that she would know all of this stuff and she does she has the sense and luckily she shares it with us for Kelly discovering the balloons at the twins gravesite did more than confirm Katie's gift when I saw the balloons lying there I was at peace I knew that we were moving on that was my stepping stone to really being okay and I thought you know what we need another member of this family in October of 1997 Kelly experienced another miracle when she gave birth to a son Patrick she came out just screaming and bringing us more joy than we would ever think [Music] Katie was so happy that everything was okay that she actually had a baby brother that she could hold was just so cuddly and soft it made me feel really good inside and four years later their relationship continues to be a happy birth but he is all boy his big sister loves him to death she is the big sister she takes care of him and she helps them and and he's a little brother but he's a joy like sister like brother and looking back at it had I not experienced what I did with Andrew Myles I would have never had Patrick and I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason and Katie her strength her love I couldn't have done it without her [Music] but we're here to live and love and create and I've created and I'm very blessed [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Questar Entertainment

Views: 282,684

Rating: 4.8596492 out of 5

Keywords: Questar, it's a miracle, inspirational, miracles, balloons from heaven, gifted child, premonitions, family bond, twins, dreams, angels, richard thomas, special girl, loss of pregnancy, strength, smart girl, bond of family, heaven, prayer

Id: ouDusmKpUkA

Length: 17min 3sec (1023 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 26 2019