Bere 5/2025 #13
Second miracle
So I told you in a previous email that there was a woman who had a thyroidectomy and the recurrent laryngeal nerve was cut as it was in an abnormal position. And that rather than having a hoarse voice, she spoke normally. And answered prayer and a miracle!
Today we had another miracle answer to prayer. A lady came into the hospital barely breathing and in a coma. She did nothing other than breath. We suspected infection and have been treating her and praying for her daily. And she just lay there breathing. No reaction to painful stimulus. Today she sat up and started talking. Incredible!!! A Miracle! She is very weak from not eating and laying there days, but conscious and appropriate. We praise God for allowing us to see miracles!! I know He is doing much more than we realize, but it is always so neat to see His working!
Another one I’m still praying for a miracle is the guy who was stabbed with a cow horn. He is still doing poorly and still necrosing more of his side and back skin. I operated on him this Sunday morning. And found an anastomotic leak again, in one anastomosis, and fortunately the other one looked good. He had pus up near his diaphragm and cloudy fluid over the rest of his abdomen. I put in some glove drains so I can tell when the abdominal fluid is bad again and closed his abdomen. I may need to take him back and look in a couple days. The family was ready to take him home to die. But I convinced them to stay. I think they are out of money and either don’t want to spend more or they think it’s futile. I kind of think it’s futile too, but I won’t say that yet. I think his nutritional status is so poor that he isn’t healing. I debriefed more dead skin and muscle off his side but seems less today. They keep saying they have no money so Im covering the post meds for them. About $60 equivalent for a few days IV meds. I think with his previous two surgeries meds (Surgeries were emergencies so not charged), they’ve paid about $300. So it has been quite a lot of IV’s he’s used.
After doing that and helping the visiting OB/GYN with getting set up for D&C I check on a few people on the ward and head to get my tools. Dr. Laurel wants a cat door put in and I think others have helped me find the tools needed. So I spend the next couple hours cutting holes in a door and in a wall to install two cat doors. Then she has some spray foam so I go around and fill all the holes in the house that mice and rats could run through to get in. I feel fairly successful in plugging everything.
I eat some supper and then have good conversation with some of the missionaries. Then Im called to see a woman who the maternity nurse can’t find a fetal heart tone. She is correct, the babies heart isn’t beating. I leave and then get called back 15 min later. Another one the same question. This one has a heart beat that is normal.