The saga of life as a patient (and a patient's daughter) continues. It was more than a week ago that mom developed some complications, she began to lose her ability to speak and express herself. Each day she was a little worse and there were little things that were changing. And yet the doctors were minimizing these things and saying it was just post-op swelling, blah, blah blah...I knew better but couldn't seem to make enough noise to be taken seriously.
SO I put a plea for prayer. Specifically asking the prayer warriors in my life to pray for mom's brain to heal but also pray that the doctors would be still long enough to let God guide them in the answer. I visualized them pausing just for a moment and that one missing link would pop out and an answer would come...Neuro-surgery and Neurology were the players and one thought they knew better than the other - not surprising - but to their credit, they did not back down and proceded to prove the other one wrong. SO it was during one of the neurologists exams, that the nurse later told me, that he saw something he hadn't seen before. Just a little change in her vision that turned on the light bulb that this might be something else. A 24 hour EEG later and they counted 7 seizures...don't know how many her brain endured before this test.
You see God works in this world through God's faithful disciples. We are given gifts and the free will to use them or not, and when we do and when we let God guide us in using them "all things work together for good" So the neurologist has no idea that there were so many voices behind what I'm sure he considers a flash of brilliance on his own part...no prayers were at work, the Holy Spirit was at work...Mom is back in rehab and beginning again to find her way back to good health and peace. Please keep praying!
