A good friend of mine went to the doctor Friday morning with pain in his lower abdomen. After too many hours they finally diagnosed it as appendicitis...sent him to the hospital for a 20 minute routine surgery.
That is not what happened!
When they perform surgery, they put you to sleep administering a drug to paralyze your body to insert a breathing tube. In the vast majority of people this paralyzing drug wears off after 8-10 minutes. But in extremely rare situations the paralysis may last a few hours. My friends lasted 18 hours aided by a little morphine and some other sleeping agent/pain killer given early Saturday morning.
When I heard of the non-routine situation I got to the hospital and sat with the family and my friend. The older I get the more emotional I am and so my prayers were mixed with choking back tears. I had not planned on seeing my great friend lying in a hospital bed with a breathing tube for at least another 25 years.
1 in a million!
They kicked everyone out of the room. He woke up. The tube was removed. The next scene was the nurse appearing in the waiting room and telling us he was sitting up in a chair and wanted to see us. Praise God. The conversation was refreshing.
Father...thanks for sparing my friend and being the 1 in a million!
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