Pictures from ICU and Beyond ...

"This song* (words below) is dedicated with love to those who 
thought I would die ... 'Have faith in God!' " -- "Hollis"

To listen to MP3 version of "Hello, Goodbye":  STOP the "midi" (instrumental)
version (above) and CLICK HERE

    

 

"Oh, my! ... a tube aga-i-n?"  "O' mo-m-m!  Do I have to?"  "Well, nurse,  I dunno ..." 

 

To understand the magnitude of this bonafide miracle of healing, you must realize that they said Hollis' liver was damaged beyond repair, for his tummy was accumulating the enzymes secreted by the liver when it "dies".  His abdomen would fill up with the fluid as quickly as they could "tap" it off (above), taking as much as 8 oz. or more---an amount equivalent to a small soda.

It was filling his abdomen and pressing in on the heart and lungs, which also had fluid in them.  No doubt, they said,  that he would surely die soon!!  He could not live long without a liver, and they were not going to keep him on life support indefinitely ... so they called the family in to say "goodbye."  Our "backs were to the wall," and all we could do is cry out to God.  And He heard and answered us. 

Thanks to the prayers of many ... God changed things! --2 Cor. 1:11 (the whole story yet to come).

 
Words to Beatles' tune "Hello, Goodbye" --
    Chorus:
"You say, "Goodbye," and I say, "Hello!"
HELLO, GOODBYE, HELLO, GOODBYE, hello hello
HELLO, GOODBYE, I don't know why you say, "Goodbye;"  I say, "Hello!"

 

The Saga of the 

Mysterious Sonogram

    On Wed., Oct. 26, Hollis was taken to X-ray to video his sucking and swallowing motion, after which Radiology consented to our request to do a sonogram on his abdominal organs. After viewing the kidney, the doctor came to the liver and became almost transfixed by what he saw!  He called in the department head, an older doctor whose gray hair reflected his years of experience.  He put on gloves to investigate for himself.  Together they stared at the liver, reviewing the same views over and over. 
    After 10 minutes I broke the silence asking, "What's your observation?"  "I don't know," was his reply.  " Odd," I thought, thinking they just didn't want to be interrupted. I was watching the same monitor they were looking at.  After another 10 minutes of the same routine I again asked, "See  anything mystifying?" almost jokingly.   
    Finally, he said, "We don't know what this is!" (There were white sparkly agents covering his entire liver).  He ventured several guesses, then added, "We've never seen anything like this before!  ... Obviously, it's part of the healing process, something that's happened since the infection." 

Liver Baffles Doctors!! 

     On Dec. 5 they took another sonogram to try to clarify what they had observed before.  But again they had no answers--- just "educated guesses," and a caution not to be too overjoyed at the "sparkles" on his liver ... that while it was part of the healing, the liver was still very damaged and that they could not conclude whether their observations were altogether good or bad. In other words ... THEY DID NOT KNOW any more than they did before!  I assured them that God did, however, and that Hollis would be OK! (I guess they felt they needed to offer an explanation since they are paid to have the answers, whereas God only knows!) 

     You can imagine the frustration of the doctors, who have never seen a liver that had been so damaged heal from such devestation. We're simply grateful that God breathed new life into a liver they said was totally devastated, destroyed and dead!  And now... the liver is WORKING!! Praise God!I will show a copy of the sonogram as soon as we can get a paper print of it ....