answer to prayer?
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My cousin has been suffering from liver failure (sorry, I've never been given a specific diagnosis) for years, needing a transplant but waiting for her turn and also waiting for a matching donor to be found. In those years there's never been a hint of good news for her and her condition has steadily deteriorated. Nothing but waiting and getting worse.
For the most part she's managed to stay home and live more or less normally, but she's had moments when she needed quick medical attention: in those times, an ambulance would take her to hospital in Cambridge, and sometimes she'd then be forwarded to a specialty clinic in London [2 hours away]. They'd stabilize her and then she'd be home again for a while...
A few days ago she suddenly took a very bad turn. Her son decided that she would end up in London anyway, so to avoid the usual formality and delay of a stay in Cambridge, he took her to London himself. He and his family had an uneasy feeling about this one, like they weren't sure if she would be returning home this time.
Meanwhile, my mom [a devout Baptist] has been praying for my cousin all along. They've always been unusually close and Mom thinks of her almost as a daughter she never had. But she told me that, on this occasion, she felt moved to pray harder than ever [she told me “I prayed so hard I cried”].
A few hours after my cousin arrived in London, the same clinic lost a patient who was a registered organ donor. All the necessary checks were done: this donor was a perfect match for my cousin and she was first in line and the organ was right there. Twenty-four hours after she arrived, they were finished “installing” her new liver and now she's in recovery. (Examination of her old, removed liver suggested that it probably had a few more days left in it at best...)
I'm not used to hearing stories like this except in bad movies. It's still kinda hard for me to realize that this has actually happened, but there it is.
My cousin has been suffering from liver failure (sorry, I've never been given a specific diagnosis) for years, needing a transplant but waiting for her turn and also waiting for a matching donor to be found. In those years there's never been a hint of good news for her and her condition has steadily deteriorated. Nothing but waiting and getting worse.
For the most part she's managed to stay home and live more or less normally, but she's had moments when she needed quick medical attention: in those times, an ambulance would take her to hospital in Cambridge, and sometimes she'd then be forwarded to a specialty clinic in London [2 hours away]. They'd stabilize her and then she'd be home again for a while...
A few days ago she suddenly took a very bad turn. Her son decided that she would end up in London anyway, so to avoid the usual formality and delay of a stay in Cambridge, he took her to London himself. He and his family had an uneasy feeling about this one, like they weren't sure if she would be returning home this time.
Meanwhile, my mom [a devout Baptist] has been praying for my cousin all along. They've always been unusually close and Mom thinks of her almost as a daughter she never had. But she told me that, on this occasion, she felt moved to pray harder than ever [she told me “I prayed so hard I cried”].
A few hours after my cousin arrived in London, the same clinic lost a patient who was a registered organ donor. All the necessary checks were done: this donor was a perfect match for my cousin and she was first in line and the organ was right there. Twenty-four hours after she arrived, they were finished “installing” her new liver and now she's in recovery. (Examination of her old, removed liver suggested that it probably had a few more days left in it at best...)
I'm not used to hearing stories like this except in bad movies. It's still kinda hard for me to realize that this has actually happened, but there it is.
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