Da Count in Friday 55-Brought Forth

Once

each child left his mother's womb,

emerged to light,

the welcoming embrace of family.

Sons became men,

had their own families,

worked to provide

by entering the earth's belly,

which nearly became a tomb.

Two months they waited,

relying on a man-made umbilical

before re-emerging

to light

and the joyous embrace

of the world.

*image from Yahoo News

Friday 55 & Da Count-Miracle

FRIDAY 55

An aneurysm,
heart damage,
pneumonia from aspirating vomit,
kidney shutdown,
gangrene in the feet,
three weeks in a coma,
a month in ICU,
bilateral amputation,
3 weeks in another hospital room,
2 weeks in a rehab center,
countless desperate prayers.
She wants legs and to go home.
Yesterday she was wheeled through her front door.


DA COUNT

You may or may not recall me mentioning at the beginning of the year about a friend of mine who suffered a massive brain aneurysm on New Year's Day. For a long time she was not expected to live. It came to a point where the doctors were pretty sure she'd have significant brain damage even if she did. Any one of the things she went through could have killed her and the combination should have from the standpoint of medical expectation. She lived and emerged from the coma with her mind and personality intact even if her body no longer is. Yesterday she came home to her own house, which friends built a ramp into. She is a miracle, plain and simple...and I am given a bit of perspective.