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"I'm sick. Oh, I feel so sick." He struggled to get up and she helped him get into the bathroom where he became deathly ill. She grabbed a towel off the rack and wiped off the perspiration that covered his face, as he leaned against the sink for support. She became frightened when she saw the amount of fluid that soaked the towel.
"Heart attack!" she heard echoing in her head. "Oh, God, no!" she prayed. "Please don't make it so."
"Help me get into my chair," he barely whispered. She guided his limp body into the recliner and then reached for the phone and dialed 911.
Driving to the hospital, behind the ambulance, she pleaded to the Lord, "Please help us. Please make him well."
The attendant in the emergency room led her to the area where her husband was being treated and someone sat her down on a stool. She struggled to see past the clamor and hustle of the white coats, wanting to satisfy herself that he was still breathing. A physician was hurling out questions to him, while a lab technician worked feverishly to hook up the EKG and a phlebotomist drew vials of blood, hurrying so that another technician could work the portable X-ray machine. She felt separated, as though they didn't know or care that she was there. Strangers, people she had never met before were making life or death decisions about this man who belonged to her.
"Lord," she prayed silently, "please help us."
She found herself answering the cardiologist. "Yes, I understand that he has to go to Boston to have the heart surgery. Yes, you can call the med flight. But wait, can I go in the helicopter with him?"
"Well," he answered carefully, "It will be up to the team when they arrive." He saw her apprehension and added, "It has been done before, though." He wanted to give her something positive to hang onto.
But the team denied her request. So, despondently, she watched the helicopter take off, and fly overhead towards Boston. She ran to the parking lot where she had left her car and prayed that the Lord would help her find her way to where she was going, as she strained her memory to repeat the directions that were blurted out to her from one of the concerned nurses.
The drive into the city was not without a mishap as she took the wrong exit off the parkway and ended up in an unfamiliar section. Not knowing how to correct her mistake she pulled the car over to the curb, broke down in tears and pleaded with the Lord for His guidance and help. A miracle occurred. A passerby noticed her crying and stopped and asked if she could be of assistance.
There were no more tears, but much thanksgiving, as arrangements were made between the two women on how to proceed to the Boston hospital.
The passerby commanded, "Stay parked here until I get my car from the parking lot nearby and then you can follow me to the hospital. I know that area well."
Finally, the two cars proceeded on their way and arrived at their destination.
Sitting at the bedside of her husband, she couldn't take her eyes off his sleeping body. As she laid her hand over his, she allowed her mind to wander back.
"The angioplasty was a complete success," the young doctor announced in answer to her urgent questions when she finally arrived at the hospital. "Yes, we implanted a stent and he will be as good as new."
She savored the memory of those words as a strong surge of thankfulness filled her with such force that she closed her eyes, bowed her head and remembered, "God, you are our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." Psalms 46:1
**The scripture reference comes from the King James Version of The Holy Bible**
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