So the poor kid has been through a lot and always manages to get through it. She, her mother (Cyndi's sister) and the rest of the family (this is the South Dakota family we regularly visit) are among the evangelical Christian bunch so there is always a fair share of praising the lord and thanking god going on. But today, it was a bit more than usual.
Early this morning, Marsha suffered a dissected aortic aneurysm. This is a condition that can kill you even if it happens to you in the hospital ER. As it happened Marsha actually began coughing up blood so they took it very seriously, very quickly. To make a long story short, she was air-lifted to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. Immediate open heart surgery performed by a team of surgeons that was also flown in was able to repair the damage and save her. The surgery was completely successful and she is expected to make a full recovery.
We are all happy about this.
But all day long the calls for prayers were reverberating all over Facebook and other social media. "May God give infinite wisdom to the surgeons so they know exactly what to do" or "May the LORD guide the surgeon's hand". Stuff like that. Hundreds of messages if not more, all day. And then all the thanking began. God and/or the Lord stepped in and did as they begged and Marsha was spared. Praise Jesus!
So I have to wonder, if God and Jesus are so good at taking care of Marsha, why did she have a dissected aortic aneurysm in the first place?
I guess it's part of their plan... Or something.
For Arneb:
Marsha's Mom wrote:Ok here is the picture the doctor drew. I will attempt to explain. The three black items are Marsha's new stints. The went in her left neck by collar bone and put one in (top right) to get blood flow from left brain to left arm. Then the middle long black stint goes from the old one (dotted line) all the way down past the anurism. But notice this totally block flow to both her arms. Hence the third stint the v shaded one that Takes the blood from the left arm to the rt arm. So check this out blood leaves her heart headed to left brain now newly routed to left arm heads down to V turn and heads to rt arm. I can only say wow and thank you Jesus and doctors. We need continued prayer that kidneys keep working as the dies are hard on them. That no nerves were damaged and everything gets blood flow.