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Leave the black suit at home



Leave the black suit at home

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Who can solve the problems facing those who considered impossible to solve, is God. For him there are no limits. He is the one who responds with power. Believe in the Lord, Believe and persevere, two powerful keys that will open doors in the realm of miracles. As most of the people believes that Miracle is anything which cannot be explains by the law of nature. (Sproule, 1992).

As our parents become older and medically compromised by the various aging processes that reward the senior status; we as children of senior citizens began to prepare ourselves for the inevitable notification of our beloved parent's decline in health. When confronted with this formidable reality numerous factors such as our personal relationship with our parents, the dynamics of the illness, and religion or faith in a power greater than us consume our thoughts. For me, that day was never more obvious then last month when my father was the diagnosis with a massive bilateral subdural hematoma. For the lay people that may briefly traverse this letter a subdural hematoma can be described as “bleeding in the brain”. Myself, as an anesthesiologist in the community that perform anesthesia on these types of neuro cases I quickly ascertained that this diagnosis was most ominous. I consulted our resident neurosurgeons that concurred that this bleeding would probably be a terminal event and I should prepare for the worst. Before leaving the hospital I consulted with several individuals and asked them to please pray for my father's condition. Of the many people in the community, that I elicited prayers from, I will mention a hospital employee; Ellen Burch, who is our secretary for pre-admissions and whom I had nicknamed “Captain of the Prayer Team.). Looking at the criteria for categorizing an event as a miracle, Bible states that miracles occur and the believers of this book accept it as a fact (McLaughlin, 2002).

I had used Ellen personal connections when I was preparing to past my anesthesia board examination. She has a good record with people in high places. However with this diagnosis I suspected that no one of this earth could change the prognosis. Preparing my clothing attire, to travel East, I packed a blue pinstriped suit so I could look professional when I visited my father in the hospital. I then return to my closet to retrieve my black suit. I had used this particular suit in attendance of funerals in the recent past. It was encased in a black suit bag, ironed, and still fit. However when I began to think about my own religious beliefs in relations to the healing powers of prayer. Faith appeared to mandate me leaving the black suit home in Visalia, while I traveled to South Carolina to visit my father. Upon arrival to the Intensive Care Unit at Grand Strand Hospital I viewed my father's seemingly lifeless body receiving oxygen through the mechanical ...