Rachel Held Evans, popular Christian writer, dies at age 37

Evans 'book "A Year of Biblical Life," published in 2012, reached number 18 on the New York Times' best-seller list at its first publication, according to its website. The book recounts her year of "Biblical femininity" in which she participated in acts such as growing her hair, making her own clothes, obeying her husband, waking up before dawn and camping in the garden during the day. its rules.

"It's a dream come true for any writer, of course, but what's even more significant than drawing up the elusive" list "has been hearing the stories of readers touched by the book, "Evans wrote in November 2012.

Evans was in a medically induced coma

On April 19, Evans' husband, Daniel, began posting health updates on his blog. He said that during the treatment for an infection, the doctors discovered that she had constant seizures.

Evans was put into a coma medically on April 19 because of convulsions, writes her husband. During the next 10 days and transfers between three institutions, Evans was in a coma.

The doctors started weaning Evans Tuesday from the coma drug, but her husband "did not return to the state of alert during this process," wrote her husband.

"The hospital team worked to diagnose the main cause of its seizures and proactively addressed some of the known causes for which diagnoses were not available immediately due to physical limitations." "he wrote.

On Thursday, Evans had "sudden and extreme" changes in his vital signs. A medical team discovered "significant swelling of his brain" and took emergency measures.

"The team worked until Friday afternoon to the best of its ability to save her," Daniel wrote. "This swelling event caused serious damage and could not possibly be survived."

Daniel said that all the experience was "surrealistic".

"I still hope it's a nightmare that I'll wake up to … I have the impression of telling the story of someone else", he wrote.

"I can not express all the support that this represents for us and our children, to all the people who prayed, called, sent an SMS, drove, took the plane, gave of themselves physically and financially to ease that burden in this world was a gift for all of us and his work will survive him for a long time. "