    
missionary_lady
Intermediate Member
Username: missionary_lady
Post Number: 124
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 189.3.11.119
| | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 9:22 pm: | 
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My grandson Gabriel had a serious heart surgery when he was 5 months old. There was nothing much the doctors could do for him other than wrapping pulmonary artery, ventricle was damaged, aorta on the wrong side and a huge hole in the heart, they really sewed him up to die...but he lived in that shape...every breath at times seemed like the last...We went from doctor to doctor they all said for him to live he had to have more surgery.
For two years I held him in my arms and rocked him every night and watched him afraid he would die in his sleep.
Altogether we suffered 5 years with a death sentence over him. He needed surgery but advanced heart surgery...something far beyond our possibilities and even the hospital knowledge and equipment here.
One day Dr. Gorette, my friend, wanted to talk to me and she said, “Missionary, even though we do not have the equipment you have in America please go get it done”. I said, “What if he dies on the table?” She looked at me and said, “Missionary, he is dying right now you just cannot see it but I am a doctor and he cannot live...I just sat starring at my friend and I begin to weep. She got up and walked over and put her hand on my shoulder and said Missionary, there is one thing worse for you than him dying on an operating table and that is knowing he is dying you did nothing EXCEPT LET HIM DIE.”
I made up my mind right there we would go for the operation...through a miracle from God a hospital called me from the states and in the end did surgery for him and he is still alive today and doing well. He will need another operation when he is older but for now all is well.
That is the way I feel about HH...Yes, at times I must confess I am scared to see so many scared BUT there is one thing worse than doing nothing and that is to let things repeat themselves and more people be abused wounded and hurt for life.
I chose to do something...thank you for choosing to do something. |