TOPIC: "Miracle Surgery"

Jay does she have bilateral pneumothorax? Did she have a chest x-ray prior to surgery? Did they place chest tubes? If so. are they to negative pressure?

The laprascopic equipment pictured is a robotic assisted laprascope.

Hey Jay,

Thanks for the update. Are you saying her other lung collapsed today or the same one collapsed again? She'll be in our prayers again tonight.

Hi all -

During the night Wanda experienced a miraculous recovery!  Her fever is gone, her infections subsided, her O2 gases are 99%, which means her lung is working (actually both are fine now) and her blood pressure went from 80/50 to 129/88.  All great news.  Even the doctors were surprised.

They released her to come to the hotel with me this afternoon.  She has already had a life-saving shower!  It seems we will be flying out tomorrow as planned.  This is great news too.  I am already booked for the week beginning Wednesday and needed to get home!  No work = no money!

She has her instructions regarding exercise and lung therapy, and prescriptions, and we will be underway!  I can't tell you what a burden this has been.  Your comments and thoughts and prayers have been duly noted and appreciated.  Thank you so much, to all of you...

P.s.  The doctors were concerned that the stress and lack of sleep had affected  me and took my blood pressure.  It was 131/77.  Not bad for an old guy...    (;>)

Dave - thank you for your concern, even to ask your spiritual adviser! 

I have had questions like that before and reading a chapter in a book really helped clear it up for me.  The book is "Faith Precedes the Miracle," by Spencer W. Kimball.  The chapter is entitled, "Tragedy or Destiny?"  Basically it treats the question of why there is so much suffering.

Here is a little food for thought.  A couple of lines:

"Should all prayers be immediately answered according to our selfish desires and our limited understanding, then there would be little or no suffering, sorrow, disappointment or even death, and if these were not there would also be an absence ofjoy, success, resurrection, eternal life..."

and

"Every act of God is purposeful. He sees the end from the beginning. He knows what builds us, or tears us down, what will thwart the program and what will give us eventual triumph.

The Lord does not always heal the sick, nor save those in hazardous zones. He does not always relieve suffering and distress, for even these seemingly undesirable conditions may be part of a purposeful plan.

Being human we would expel form our lives, sorrow, distress, physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we closed the doors upon such, we might be evicting our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long suffering and self mastery. The sufferings of our Savior was part of his education."

and

"The Lord takes many away in infancy, that they may escape the envy of man and the sorrows and evils of the present world. They were to pure. too lovely, to live on this earth. Therefore I mightily considered, instead of mourning we have reason to rejoice as they are delivered from evil and we shall have them again. The only difference between the old and young dying, is one lives longer in heaven and eternal light and glory than the other, and is freed a little sooner from this miserable world.”

I believe that faith in fact does precede miracles.  Last night was a miracle for us.  I can tell you that this was not the first miracle we have experienced. 

Thanks for your thoughts and for thinking of us.

Mike - your questions -

1.  I don't know!  She has two lungs, which is bi lateral...
2.  Yes.  She had the works.  This was considered "serious" surgery.
3.  They took her away when the lung collapsed and brought her back.  No tubing after the treatment.  I don't know all that they did.  She does not remember.
4.  Her blood pressure was very low.  It is up to normal now.

That pictured machine is one of Dr. Liu's babies.  I could have posted this picture too - see below!

I am glad she is better. Bilateral would mean both lungs.